- Date
- March 3, 1984, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Boston, MA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9159CCessna R182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840303048749A
- Case key
- 35760
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
Traffic pattern procedure - congested
Airspeed - disregardedFactor
Proper descent rate - excessiveCause
Anxiety/apprehension
Flare - improperCause
Landing gear,tire - exploded
Analysis
According to the plt, due to landing traffic he was requested by ATC to keep his airspeed as fast as possible. A hard landing resulted at 110 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9159C
- Reported as
- Cessna R182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R18200431
- Airframe hours
- 790
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-J3C5D, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Fred Pasternack
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 17, 1983
- Departed
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BOS · Logan, runway 33L, 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 643 total · 23 in this make and model · 476 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 30° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.