- Date
- January 2, 1983, 03:44 local (09:44 UTC)
- Place
- Laurel, MS
- Injuries
- 20 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5291MSwearingen SA-226TC
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830102000199A
- Case key
- 5994
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
At 11,000 ft MSL during cruise a prop separated from the left eng. The eng was feathered & the plt observed the eng displaced inboard & downward. An emergency landing was made & upon landing the left main gear was found to be retracted. The acft slid to a stop coming to rest on the adjacent taxiway. Metallurgical examination revealed that the blade failed from fatigue initiating at corrosion pits on the interior of the failed blade balance hole. The paint in the balance hole was discontinuous & non-uniform. There was no evidence of the hole having been shotpeened. Overhaul instructions require shotpeening of the balance hole. TSO was calculated as 1565.8 hrs.
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
- N5291M
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA-226TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC202E
- Airframe hours
- 4,437
- Engine
- Airesearch TPE3313UW303G, 940 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Planes, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- AAIP · December 20, 1982 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- BTR · Baton Rouge, LA
- Destination
- PDK · Chamblee, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PIB · Pine Belt Regional, runway 18, 6,501 × 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,469 total · 2,800 in this make and model · 5,135 as pilot in command · 82 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 54 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.