- Date
- February 10, 1985, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- St.Augustine, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N92668Piper J3C-65
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850210037599A
- Case key
- 31351
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft collided with a wind direction indicator support pole during a recovery from a bounced landing. The CFI on board stated he turned his head to advise the student in the back seat to keep the left wing down because of the x-wind condition when he noticed the acft drifting to the right toward the pole.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92668
- Reported as
- Piper J3C-65
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17043
- Airframe hours
- 3,028
- Engine
- Continental A65-8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aero Sport,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Marion M. Honeycutt
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 13, 1984 · 74 hours before
- Airport
- SGJ · St. Augustine, runway 13, 2,000 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 3,872 total · 120 in this make and model · 3,632 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRG, 35 nm away
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 N92668 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.