- Date
- February 17, 1990, 13:45 local (18:45 UTC)
- Place
- Washington, DC
- Injuries
- 86 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N902TSBoeing B-727-29
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11560
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Probable cause
The accident was fatigue failure of the right main landing gear support link shaft because of overtorque.
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 captain reported that when he lowered the landing gear on approach to dca, he heard a loud thump and he got an unsafe right main gear indication. Also, 'a' system hydraulic pressure loss occurred. The pilot learned shortly afterwards, from a cabin crewmember, that the right main gear landing strut was proturding through the right wing surface. The captain did a low pass over dca, where air traffic tontrol personnel noticed the right main gear was down; however, the right main gear door appeared to be partially extended. As a precaution, the captain diverted the flight to iad, where the aircraft landed without incident. Examination of the aircraft revealed the right main gear beam hanger support shaft fractured, causing the right main gear strut to loosen from its mount and puncture the wing skin. Metallurgical examination of the support shaft revealed a crack in the material which preceded the fracture separation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N902TS
- Reported as
- Boeing B-727-29
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20448
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-, turbo jet
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Trump Shuttle Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- LGA · New York, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- IAD · Dulles Intl., runway 1L, 11,500 × 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 21 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAD