- Date
- March 20, 2002, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dillingham, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3947TTaylorcraft F-19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20020320009649A
- Case key
- 54416
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The collapse of the airplane's right main landing gear, for an undetermined reason, during the landing roll.
Analysis
The private pilot was practicing touch-and-go landings in a ski-equipped airplane in an area of flat, featureless, snow-covered terrain. During the first landing, just after touchdown, the right main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and fuselage. Due to the remote location of the accident airplane, no NTSB postaccident inspection of the wreckage was accomplished, and the reason for the gear collapse was not determined.
Factual narrative
On March 20, 2002, about 1700 Alaska standard time, a ski-equipped Taylorcraft F-19 airplane, N3947T, sustained substantial damage when the right main landing gear collapsed during landing, at an off airport site located about 10 miles west of Dillingham, Alaska. The solo certificated private pilot was not injured. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) personal flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated about 1630, from a private airstrip at the pilot's home in Dillingham.
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge on March 22, the pilot reported that he was practicing touch-and-go landings in an area of flat, featureless, snow-covered terrain. The pilot reported that during the first landing, just after touchdown, the right main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and fuselage.
Due to the remote location of the accident airplane, no NTSB inspection of the collapsed landing gear was accomplished.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3947T
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft F-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- F121
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jeremy C. Mayer
- Registered owner
- Jeffery M. Ingham
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DLG · Dillingham, AK
- Destination
- DLG · Dillingham, AK
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
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Last flight review
- June 19, 2002
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 166 total · 10 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 26, 2002, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 503 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.