- Date
- April 8, 1988, 01:15 local (06:15 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N448CASwearingen SA-227AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880408071569I
- Case key
- 13992
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Probable cause
Inadequate design of the strut for the intended service conditions in commuter air carrier operations.
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,main gear shock absorbing strut - failure,total
Landing gear,main gear shock absorbing strut - fatigueCause
Landing gear,main gear shock absorbing strut - overloadCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N448CA
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA-227AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AC448
- Airframe hours
- 11,173
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-11U, 1,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Conair
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · March 24, 1988 · 81 hours before
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FWA · Baer Field, runway 32, 8,500 × 150 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 7,380 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 30° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
- Observed at
- FWA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.