- Date
- July 2, 1987, 19:00 local (Jul 3, 1987, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sprague River, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2625QCessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 8, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870702044949A
- Case key
- 40655
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
Flare - improperCause
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Landing gear,nose gear - failure,total
Analysis
A hard, flat, bounced landing occurred collapsing the nose gear and damaging the firewall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2625Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18257825
- Airframe hours
- 240
- Engine
- Continental O-470-K, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Don Pickett, doing business as P. O. Box 378
- Registered owner
- Donald Pickett
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1987
- Departed
- 6S4 · Gates, OR
- Destination
- 28U · Owyhee, OR
- Airport
- 28U · Owyhee Reservoir, runway 32, 1,840 × 15 ft, dirt
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 212 total · 158 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots, gusting 7
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F
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 N2625Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.