- Date
- March 16, 1983, 17:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Columbus, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N93571Bellanca 17-30A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830316009239A
- Case key
- 12112
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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 had purchased the acft on 2/28/83. From that date until the day of the accident on 3/16/83, he had problems with the landing gear. When he attempted to retract the gear after takeoff on the day of the accident, the indicators showed that the gear had retracted, but there was no normal sound of gear retraction. The plt flew past the tower for a gear check & tower personnel reported that the gear appeared to be down. During a subsequent landing, the right main gear collapsed, the acft went of the rwy & struck a rwy light. An investigation revealed that the gear control relay & airspeed switch contacts were corroded, pitted and/or scored. When these were replaced, the gear operated normally. It was noted that the plt did not use the manual gear extension sys which would have positioned the gear in the down & locked position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93571
- Reported as
- Bellanca 17-30A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 73-30616
- Airframe hours
- 994
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-K1A, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John E. Stevenson, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1983 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- OSU · Ohio State University, runway 9R, 5,000 × 100 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,128 total · 9 in this make and model · 561 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 5° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OSU
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.