- Date
- June 28, 2002, 14:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Nashville, TN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9098QBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Nashville FSDO
- FAA report
- 20020628019899A
- Case key
- 55223
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Probable cause
Collapse of the main landing gear for undetermined reasons.
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
During a landing touchdown, the left side of the airplane settled down on the runway followed by the right main landing gear and nose gear. During the post-accident examination of the airplane, the airplane was lifted, and the landing gear was extended and locked. The main landing gear system was removed and overhauled in accordance with the Beechcraft maintenance manual. No other mechanical malfunctions were noted with the main landing gear system.
Factual narrative
On June 28, 2002 at 1450 eastern daylight time, a Beech 58, N9098Q, experienced a gear collapse on landing at Nashville International Airport in Nashville, Tennessee. The airplane, registered to and owned by Flight Express, Inc., was operated by the airline transport pilot, accompanied by a company mechanic. The maintenance flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 with no flight plan filed. Neither occupant sustained injuries, and the airplane received minor damaged. The flight originated from Nashville International Airport, in Nashville, Tennessee, at 1430.
According to the airline transport pilot,and the mechanic, this flight was necessary to complete the annual inspection of the airplane. The purpose of the flight was to verify engine takeoff RPM and to verify throttle position for the landing gear warning horn micro-switches. The takeoff and climb were normal, and the gear warning horn was tested during downwind. The gear warning horn did not sound when the throttle was reduced. When the landing gear lever was lowered for landing, the landing gear green light illuminated. After touchdown, the landing gear collapsed.
Examination of the accident site revealed 17 left propeller strike marks at the approach end of the runway 20C. This was followed by the left inboard gear door dragging on the runway for approximately 1500 feet before the left propeller began to strike again. The airplane continued 500 feet down the runway and the right propeller began to strike the surface. The nose of the airplane pitched forward and slid 263 feet before coming to a stop.
Examination of the airplane revealed, after the airplane was lifted off the runway the landing gear extended and locked. The main landing gear system was removed and overhauled in accordance with the Beechcraft maintenance manual. No other mechanical malfunctions were noted with the main landing gear system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9098Q
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-109
- Airframe hours
- 9,563
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental IO-520-CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Flight Express, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 28, 2002 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- BNA · Nashville, TN
- Airport
- BNA · Nashville International, runway 020, 8,000 × 150 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
- 33
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,538 total · 240 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 225 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KBNA
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 9, 2003, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.1 MB 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.