- Date
- June 14, 1983, 14:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Hood River, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2899XCessna 177
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830614025129A
- Case key
- 39710
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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 was damaged in a hard landing during unfavorable wind conditons. The pilot had just come cross country where he encountered turbulence. When he called UNICOM to land they gave him winds of 15-25 KTS velocity from the west and turbulence on the final approach. Landing was on rwy 25. According to the pilot a gust of wind lifted the acft during flare. The skid on the acft tail contacted the ground during this maneuver and the nose or the acft came back down hard. The pilot stated that the acft bounced again before staying on the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2899X
- Reported as
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17700299
- Airframe hours
- 1,702
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roger J. Langston
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 23, 1983
- Departed
- S21 · Bend, OR
- Destination
- 4S2 · Hood River, OR
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 4S2 · Hood River, runway 25, 3,040 × 75 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 187 total · 50 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 22 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DLS, 17 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.
Other investigations on N2899X · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.