- Date
- June 21, 1990, 18:42 local (Jun 22, 1990, 02:42 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4145YCessna 185-A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19900621025229A
- Case key
- 5384
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Probable cause
Failure of the right main gear torque plate causing an uncontrollable landing roll out.
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
Upon landing at the merrill field airport the airplane began to veer to the right and the pilot was unable to control the ground track. The airplane nosed over on the runway. Examination of the wreckage showed that the right main gear torque plate had broken in two and part of the torque plate fell out onto the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4145Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 185-A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0345
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard L. Blodgett
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- MCG · Mcgrath, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill, runway 24, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 200 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRI
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 N4145Y · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.