- Date
- March 30, 1985, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Ocracoke, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9329AVarieze Duncan/Varieze
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850330011889A
- Case key
- 6770
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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.
Gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear attachment - failure,totalCause
Design stress limits of aircraft - inadequateCause
Analysis
During landing, the tab which connects the landing gear cross tube failed allowing the right gear to collapse. The acft has an experimental certificate. The failure appeared to be due to design limitations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9329A
- Reported as
- Varieze Duncan/Varieze (DUNCAN/VAR)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1291
- Airframe hours
- 232
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leonard Brown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 15, 1984 · 91 hours before
- Departed
- Charlotte, NC
- Destination
- W95 · Ocracoke, NC
- Airport
- Ocra Coke-Island, runway 25, 3,000 × ft, asphalt
N9329ARegistered now · Duncan-Wayne VARIEZEAirframe modelDuncan-Wayne VARIEZEEngine modelContinental 0-200 series
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 355 total · 160 in this make and model · 236 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HAT, 25 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.