- Date
- July 13, 1982, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wetumpka, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N7234Grumman G-164A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 13, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820713028789A
- Case key
- 73024
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Analysis
While taxiing onto the runway with a load of insecticide, the left main landing gear strut failed. The failure occurred about 2 inches from the fuselage attach point.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7234
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 909
- Airframe hours
- 2,533
- Engine
- Pratt&Whitney R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 137
- Operator
- Windford Devaughn
- Registered owner
- Windford Devaughn
- Departed
- Wetumpka, AL
- Destination
- Wetumpka, AL
- Airport
- Wetumpka Municipal Arpt.
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 8,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
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 N7234 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.