- Date
- April 18, 1986, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- St. Augustine, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N121SUCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860418012869A
- Case key
- 31604
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
Landing gear,nose gear - failure,partialFactor
Lack of total experienceFactor
Descent - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudged
Nose gear collapsed
Analysis
The private pilot with a total of 36.2 hours of logged flight time, stated that she landed hard on the nose wheel and the nose strut failed during a full stop landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N121SU
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17271347
- Airframe hours
- 2,422
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Roberta A. Hinterlach
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 5, 1985
- Departed
- VRB · Vero Beach, FL
- Destination
- SGJ · St. Augustine, FL
- Airport
- SGJ · St. Augustine, runway 2, 2,690 × 150 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 36 total · 36 in this make and model · 36 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAX, 17 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.