- Date
- May 9, 1988, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kennewick, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7090ACessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40812
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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 landing roll the aircraft's nose gear began to shudder, with the nose gear turning 90 degrees to the left. The aircraft then nosed down onto the nose and right wing. Visual examination of the aircraft's shimmy dampener arm assembly revealed a previous weld within 1/2' of a fracture. The fracture surfaces were rough and irregular in appearance. The nose gear steering rod end bearing bolt was also fractured from what appeared to be bending forces. No record of a repair to the nose gear shimmy dampener arm assembly could be found in the aircraft's maintenance log books.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7090A
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 29190
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Vista Flying Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 28, 1987
- Departed
- S98 · Kennewick, WA
- Destination
- S98
- Airport
- S98 · Vista Field, runway 2, 3,490 × 150 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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 3,956 total · 11 in this make and model · 3,779 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F