- Date
- June 24, 1988, 23:30 local (Jun 25, 1988, 03:30 UTC)
- Place
- Cleveland, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N30GAShort Brothers SC.7
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880624027279A
- Case key
- 13946
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Probable cause
Fatigue failure on the radius between the body of the nose landing gear and the portion containing the arms.
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
During the landing roll-out, the nose gear fork assembly failed & the acft was damaged. An exam of the nose gear fork assembly revealed it had failed from fatigue. The fracture was located on the main body of the assembly, just above the fork arms.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30GA
- Reported as
- Short Brothers SC.7
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1839
- Airframe hours
- 13,299
- Engine
- Airesearch TPE-331, 715 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Cargo Carriers
- Registered owner
- Capitol Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · June 24, 1988 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- MDY · Chicago, IL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- CLE · Cleveland Hopkins, runway 23L, 8,998 × 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,093 total · 93 in this make and model · 1,843 as pilot in command · 99 in the last 90 days · 68 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 160° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE
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 N30GA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.