- Date
- June 6, 1989, 16:28 local (20:28 UTC)
- Place
- Skaneateles, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N26QDavis DA-2A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890606035319A
- Case key
- 36240
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Probable cause
The pilot's hard landing which resulted in nose gear collapse.
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 homebuilt airplane's nose gear collapsed after a hard landing at the destination airport. The airplane skidded off the left side of the runway and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N26Q
- Reported as
- Davis DA-2A
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 168
- Airframe hours
- 398
- Engine
- Lycoming UNKNOWN, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard Cartwright
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · June 5, 1989 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- N22 · Penn Yan, NY
- Airport
- Skaneateles, runway 28, 3,000 × 40 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
- 69
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 850 total · 8 in this make and model · 780 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.