- Date
- May 6, 1988, 10:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hunter Creek, AK
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N22901Cessna 185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880506013199A
- Case key
- 5004
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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.
Analysis
After landing at a mining camp airstrip, the right landing gear failed causing the aircraft to ground loop. Examination of the broken gear part revealed the original fracture to be a fatigue fracture. The initial crack in the gear leg ran parallel to the gear bolt hole. The acft was inspected 80 hrs before the failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22901
- Reported as
- Cessna 185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503077
- Airframe hours
- 3,800
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Bill Lentsch
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 3, 1987 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- Fairbanks, AK
- Airport
- Mining Camp Airstrip, runway 23, 1,000 × 75 ft, gravel
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
- 45
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17,400 total · 4,200 in this make and model · 17,245 as pilot in command · 155 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N22901 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.