- Date
- August 25, 1992, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Surfside Beach, SC
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N527MNClassic Waco YMF-5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920825032969A
- Case key
- 8650
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Probable cause
The failure of the main landing gear as a result of inadequate manufacturing.
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 sightseeing flight was attempting a landing at the private sod airfield. During the landing attempt, the right main landing gear axle separated from the landing gear strut, and the aircraft flipped over. Metallurgical examination revealed that the axle separated in fatigue at the weld joint between the axle and the joint. Microscopic examination of the weld revealed that there were areas of the weld with multiple gas voids and slag inclusions, and that the weld had not completely penetrated at the area of the inboard side of the saddle joint.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N527MN
- Reported as
- Classic Waco YMF-5
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- F5-012
- Airframe hours
- 1,657
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755B, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Beachstormer Air Rides, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Southwood Enterprises, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 6, 1992 · 78 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE · Javika, runway 4, 4,000 × 200 ft, grass/turf
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
- 59
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 11,060 total · 50 in this make and model · 10,550 as pilot in command · 337 in the last 90 days · 88 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MYR, 5 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.
Other investigations on N527MN · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.