ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 357148
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| Date: | Sunday 30 June 1996 |
| Time: | 11:45 LT |
| Type: |  Stoddard-Hamilton Glasair IIS FT |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N16CD |
| MSN: | 2043 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 426 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-360-A3B6 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Apalachicola, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Cartersville, GA (VPC |
| (F47) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot stated that she entered the traffic pattern to land on runway 14 with a crosswind from the left of about 10 knots. While on short final approach with partial flaps extended and an indicated airspeed of 90 miles-per-hour, the flight encountered a downdraft. She added only partial power and the airplane landed short of the runway separating the nose landing gear. She further stated that the engine responded when she added power and she only applied a slight pitch up correction when adding power. Examination of the airplane revealed that the 4 AN3-14A bolts that secure the nose gear trunnion attach plate to the nose gear support rib were bent and the threads were stripped. The original prototype engine/propeller combination was approximately 100 pounds lighter than the installed engine/propeller combination but with the same size and number of bolts used to secure the nose gear trunnion attach plate.
Probable Cause: Inadequate application of throttle input and up elevator input by the pilot-in-command. Contributing to the accident was the in-flight encounter with a downdraft and inadequate design of the airplane by the kit manufacturer.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB MIA96LA172
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 13-Mar-2024 14:49 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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