- Date
- February 6, 1983, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Charleston, SC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1810MPiper PA-30
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830206002829A
- Case key
- 6004
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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 plt stated that the landing gear collapsed after acft had rolled aprx 1200 ft during the landing. An exam of the acft revealed that the gear retraction transmission was torn out of its fuselage bulkhead mount, the landing gear push-pull cable rod ends were broken & the landing gear circuit breaker was popped open. All failed parts had evidence of overload failures. No preexisting cracks or sys malfunctions were noted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1810M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30338
- Airframe hours
- 3,936
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Devoe Aviation
- Registered owner
- Juan R. Hernandez
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 12, 1982 · 1,116 hours before
- Departed
- OPA · Opalocka, FL
- Destination
- ILM · Wilmington, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CHS · Charleston International, runway 3, 7,000 × 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.