- Date
- October 28, 1986, 16:40 local (21:40 UTC)
- Place
- Pompano Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N63328Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861028073849A
- Case key
- 31814
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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
Flare - misjudgedCause
Nose gear collapsed
Analysis
The plt stated that during touch-&-go landing practice on his final landing, he landed hard, the nose gear collapsed and the acft slid to a stop on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63328
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275423
- Airframe hours
- 4,890
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aviation Training Enterprises
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 21, 1986
- Departed
- FXE · Ft.Lauderdale, FL
- Airport
- PMP · Pompano Airpark, runway 10, 3,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
N63328Registration cancelled Sep 20, 2013 · Cessna 172PAirframe modelCessna 172PEngine modelLycoming 0-320 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 42 total · 34 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 39 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PMP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.