# NTSB ANC02LA024: Taylorcraft F-19, N3947T, Dillingham, AK, March 20, 2002

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: March 20, 2002, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place: Dillingham, AK
- Coordinates: 59.033889, -158.505554
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=59.0339&lon=-158.5056&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report April 8, 2003
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office: Alaska Regional Office
- Parties: Federal Aviation Administration
- NTSB case key (mKey): 54416
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ANC02LA024
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/54416/pdf
- NTSB docket: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=54416
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ANC02LA024

## Probable cause

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

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Gear collapsed, landing - roll
  - reason for occurrence undetermined (cause)
- Nose over, landing - roll

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N3947T](https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N3947T-2017-04-07), registration cancelled 2017-04-07, S/N F-121 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: Taylorcraft F-19
- Registry model: [Taylorcraft F19](https://openairdocs.org/model/taylorcraft-f19) (registry code 8850904) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: F121
- Engines: 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 26; injuries: none; 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

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20020320009649A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020320009649A), Mar 20, 2002: Tcraft F19, Dillingham, AK, No damage. (-23) During landing on an off airport site with a ski equipped, conventional gear aircraft, the right ski broke off and the aircraft sustained substantial…

## Docket (1 files)

The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 26, 2002, on NTSB's docket system: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=54416. 503 KB in all.

- Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report, NTSB Form 6120.1 (item 1, .PDF, 503 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=40394866&FileExtension=.PDF&FileName=Pilot%2FOperator%20Aircraft%20Accident%20Report,%20NTSB%20Form%206120.1-Redacted.PDF

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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