- Date
- July 11, 1993, 15:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Talkeetna, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67697Helio H295
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19930711028119A
- Case key
- 2384
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's selection of unsuitable terrain. The rough/uneven terrain was a factor.
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
The pilot reported that shortly after performing a normal wheel landing on the gravel strip, the right main landing gear collapsed. The pilot said that there was a hole in the strip that the right main landing gear wheel may have gone through which would have contributed to the stress placed on the landing gear leg assembly.
Factual narrative
On July 11, 1993, at 1530 Alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped Helio Courier airplane, N67697, registered to and operated by the Private pilot in command, crashed during the landing rollout at the Buck Stewart landing strip, approximately 45 miles northeast of Talkeetna, Alaska. The personal business flight, conducted under 14 CFR Part 91, last departed Talkeetna, Alaska and the destination was the Buck Stewart landing strip. A company VFR flight plan was in effect and visual meteorological conditions prevailed. The pilot in command and his one passenger were not injured and the airplane sustained substantial damage.
The pilot in command told the NTSB investigator in charge during a telephone conversation on July 20, 1993, that he was transporting equipment to the landing strip in support of his white water rafting business. Just after performing a normal wheel landing on the gravel strip, during the initial rollout, the right main landing gear failed.
Confirmation of the airplane incurring substantial damage was obtained on July 19, 1993.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67697
- Reported as
- Helio H295
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1252
- Airframe hours
- 4,150
- Engine
- Lycoming GO480, 295 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Jacques, Jerry J.
- Registered owner
- Jacques, Jerry J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 19, 1993
- Destination
- Buck Stewart, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 250 in this make and model · 3,500 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 80 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
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