- Date
- March 23, 1984, 11:47 local (16:47 UTC)
- Place
- Charlotte, NC
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5HEMitsubishi MU-2B-20
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840323007239A
- Case key
- 6432
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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.
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - failure,totalCause
Material inadequateCause
Landing gear,nose gear - fatigueCause
Maintenance,inspection - inadequateCause
Analysis
Upon landing the nose landing gear sheared off the acft. Exam of the nose gear revealed that two fatigue cracks had propogated to the point of total failure. The gear was the subject of an airworthiness directive that required inspection of the gear periodically prior to 4000 hrs total time. The accident landing gear had accumulated 2371 hrs total time.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5HE
- Reported as
- Mitsubishi MU-2B-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 233
- Airframe hours
- 2,371
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-A-151, 705 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Holmberg Electronics Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 6, 1983 · 72 hours before
- Departed
- PIT · Pittsburgh, PA
- Destination
- CLT · Charlotte, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CLT · Charlotte/Douglas Intl., runway 36, 7,845 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,415 total · 2,645 in this make and model · 6,152 as pilot in command · 56 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.