- Date
- August 10, 1985, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hays, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N98251Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850810038519A
- Case key
- 34008
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt, who was taking his pvt plt chk ride with an faa-designated examiner, reduced power prematurly on final approach for landing at Hays. The acft dropped, striking the ground in a level attitude, which jammed the nose gear upwards, distorting and substantially damaging the acft's firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N98251
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 98251
- Airframe hours
- 218
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Cessna Employees Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1985 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- HYS · Hays, KS
- Airport
- HYS · Hays, runway 34, 5,700 × 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 58 total · 58 in this make and model · 32 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RSL, 25 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.