- Date
- July 23, 1985, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Limerick, ME
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8789ZCessna P206D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35929
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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
During the short field approach, as the aircraft passed over the tree line, the sink rate suddenly increased. The pilot applied power and increased the pitch but the aircraft touching down hard and bounced. A second touch down was made and as the nosewheel was lowered, the propeller struck the ground. The nosewheel strut dug into the gravel runway and the aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8789Z
- Reported as
- Cessna P206D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P206-0589
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles F. Parrott
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 4, 1985 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- LWM · Lawrence, MA
- Airport
- Limerick, runway 27, 2,200 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 19,095 total · 168 in this make and model · 18,881 as pilot in command · 134 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 18 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg