- Date
- May 26, 1983, 14:46 local (19:46 UTC)
- Place
- Muscle Shoals, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6935CPiper PA-34-200T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830526067799I
- Case key
- 5989
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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
The right main landing gear strut failed on landing roll. The cause for the failure was not determined, the owner would not make the strut available for testing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6935C
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7870167
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360E, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Condor Aero Services
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 3A1 · Cullman, AL
- Airport
- MSL · Muscle Shoals
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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 11 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 11 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
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 N6935C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.