- Date
- December 29, 1983, 13:48 local (19:48 UTC)
- Place
- Davenport, IA
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7947QCessna 402B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831229064949A
- Case key
- 33610
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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 acft skidded sideways during landing on an icy rwy. The nose gear collapsed sideways when it collided with a snowbank at the rwys edge. There were no injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7947Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 402B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B0397
- Airframe hours
- 1,609
- Engine
- Continental TSI0-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Midwest Aviation Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 29, 1983 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- DSM · Des Moines, IA
- Destination
- DVN · Davenport, IA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- DVN · Davenport Muni, runway 21, 4,001 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- 64
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,326 total · 436 in this make and model · 8,209 as pilot in command · 143 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 5 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
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 N7947Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.