- Date
- July 17, 1985, 10:49 local (16:49 UTC)
- Place
- Boise, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4309RCessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850717031789A
- Case key
- 40202
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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 ground looped and the left main gear collapsed during a landing roll. The plt reported that the left wing came up during the landing roll which resulted in the acft veering to the right. When the wing settled, the left main gear collapsed allowing the left wing to contact the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4309R
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18502928
- Airframe hours
- 900
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mike D. Browning
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 8, 1985
- Departed
- Salmon, ID
- Airport
- B01 · Gowen Field, runway 28L, 9,763 × 190 ft, macadam
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 738 total · 666 in this make and model · 636 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BOI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.