- Date
- June 26, 1985, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5744WPiper PA-28-160
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850626031219A
- Case key
- 31419
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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.
Analysis
The student plt had been practicing touch and go landings. On his third landing, he permitted too steep an apch and the nose gear contacted the rwy prior to the main gear. A porpoising action then developed which was not arrested prior to failure of the nose gear. The acft landed with an 8 kt 10 deg left tailwind.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5744W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-160
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-1447
- Airframe hours
- 1,600
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Albert S. Horn
- Registered owner
- Albert S. Horn,Jr.,DBA
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 19, 1985 · 80 hours before
- Airport
- 44J · Spruce Creek, runway 23, 3,300 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 20 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 30,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAB, 8 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.