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The pilot stated in a written statement and in a telephone interview that upon landing on runway 25 at aik the nose gear started shaking violently. The pilot tried to get the weight off of the nose gear by pulling back on the stick, at which point he heard a loud bang behind him. The aircraft veered to the right and the aircraft went off the runway and the nose gear colasped.

An investigation at the site indicated that the aircract traveled off to the right side of runway 25 onto the grass about 63 feet at which point ground scaring was noted for a length of about three feet. At this point the nose gear collasped and the aircraft came to a stop on about a 270 degree heading.

Both wing tips and the outboard of the leading edge of both wings are damaged. Both main gear wheel fairing and the nose gear wheel fairing are damaged. The nose gear strut with the nose wheel and fork still attached is bent under the belly of the aircraft, which buckled the belly of the aircraft up about eight inches in the area of where the rudder pedals are attached to the floor of the aircraft. The right steering linkage is bent and twisted and the pilots right rudder pedal is bent to the center of the aircraft and the right brake master cylinder is pulled from it?s attach point. One half of a plastic block the holds the nose strut housing in place on the fire wall was found by the pilot on the edge of the runway next to where the aircraft went onto the grass.

The firewall is buckeled to the rear by the colasped nose strut. There is a length of aluminum angle on each side of the aircraft belly from the firewall to the rear of the aircraft and both are pulled downward from the belly of the aircraft just forward of the wings.

The tail tie down ring is slightly bent to the rear and slightly ground flat. The rear bulkhead above the tail tie down is bulkeled. The rear third of the bottom rib of the rudder has scraped the ground and also the edge of the rudder skin.