- Date
- August 25, 1984, 10:55 local (14:55 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9146JPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840825043699A
- Case key
- 31184
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Hard landing
Level off - improperFactor
Loss of control - on ground/water
Landing gear,tire - failure,totalFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Nose over
Analysis
The nose gear tire blew out on landing. Directional control was lost and the acft traveled off the left side of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9146J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- KR-2
- Airframe hours
- 1
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A3A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth B. Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Departed
- GNV · Gainesville, FL
- Airport
- APE · Naples Municipal, runway 4, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
N9146JRegistered now · Piper PA-28-180Airframe modelPiper PA-28-180Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 69
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,985 total · 1 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N9146J · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.