# Incident 19981023044569I: Cessna 340A, Ft Lauderdale, FL, October 23, 1998

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 23, 1998, 15:00 local time
- Place: Ft Lauderdale, FL
- Airport: Ft Lauderdale Executive
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 26.1973° N, 80.1707° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FORT LAUDERDALE EXEC (FXE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.1973&lon=-80.1707&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6828P, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6828P) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 340A (registry code 2076405, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-340a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-520 series (registry code 17040, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 340A
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,950 total, 700 in this make and model, 18 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981023044569I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-5)ON OCTOBER 23, 1998, AT APPROXIMATELY 1500 EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME CESSNA 340A, N6828P, SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE DURING LANDING AT FT. LAUDERDALE EXECUTIVE AIRPORT, FLORIDA.  THE PRIVATE PILOT AND HIS WIFE WERE NOT INJURED.  THE AIRCRAFT DEPARTED FROM WATERBURY OXFORD AIRPORT, CONNECTICUT INBOUND TO FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, THE AIRCRAFT WERE CLEARED TO LAND ILS ON RUNWAY 8.  DURING LANDING ON ROLLOUT THE LEFT WING RISE AND THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED, THE RIGHT WING AND THE RIGHT POP STRUCK THE GROUND.  POST INSPECTION OF THE AIRPLANE REVEALED THAT THE RIGHT BELLCRANK ASSEMBLY FAILED CAUSING THE RIGHT LANDING TO COLLAPSED.  M OR D ON FILE.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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