# Incident 20180315002569I: Cessna 401A, Huntsville, AL, March 15, 2018

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 15, 2018, 12:47 local time
- Place: Huntsville, AL
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 34.7304° N, 86.5861° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Huntsville, AL, within about 9 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.7304&lon=-86.5861&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6276Q, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6276Q-2019-09-06) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 401A (registry code 207590D, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-401a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 401A
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 991 total, 7 in this make and model, 200 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20180315002569I

## Narrative

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

03/15/2018 - N6276Q LANDED ON RUNWAY 18L AT HSV AT 1247 LOCAL TIME.

BOTH PILOTS STATED THE LANDING GEAR WAS CHECKED THREE SEPERATE TIMES PRIOR TO LANDING AND THE LIGHTS INDICATED THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED.

THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN AT APPROXIMATELY 15OO FT.  ON ROLL OUT, AT 2200 FT, THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED. BOTH THE LEFT WING AND THE PROPELLER ON THE LEFT ENGINE MADE CONTACT WITH THE RUNWAY.

N6276Q VEARED OFF THE RUNWAY AND CAME TO REST IN THE GRASS JUST PRIOR TO TAXIWAY C-3.

UPON INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DISCOVERED A BOLT HAD SHEARED WHICH HAD ATTACHED THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR BELLCRANK TO THE TOP OF THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR. THUS CAUSING THE UPPER AND LOWER SIDELINK ASSEMBLIES TO COLLAPSE.

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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