- Date
- September 14, 1986, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ypsilanti, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8996ZCessna 310G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860914045559A
- Case key
- 13522
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear - failure,partialCause
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Analysis
The left main gear collapsed and the acft veered off the left side of the runway during the landing roll at an groundspeed of aprx 30 KTS. Inspection of the landing gear disclosed a bent push pull tube.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8996Z
- Reported as
- Cessna 310G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310G0096
- Airframe hours
- 5,341
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-D, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- 470 Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 26, 1986 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- 7D2 · Troy, MI
- Destination
- YIP · Ypsilanti, MI
- Airport
- YIP · Willow Run, runway 9L, 7,294 × 160 ft, concrete
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 545 total · 31 in this make and model · 494 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DET, 9 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.