- Date
- July 13, 1988, 19:40 local (23:40 UTC)
- Place
- Elyria, OH
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N77AQGulfstream Aerospace G-21-G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880713026989A
- Case key
- 14114
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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,normal brake system - incorrectCause
Maintenance,installation - improperCause
Landing gear,normal brake system - wornCause
Maintenance,annual inspection - inadequateCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overloadFactor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N77AQ
- Reported as
- Gulfstream Aerospace G-21-G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1205
- Airframe hours
- 2,704
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-27, 715 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kalt Manufacturing Co.
- Registered owner
- Kalt Manufacturing Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1987 · 4 hours before
- Airport
- 1G1 · Elyria, runway 27, 3,047 × 48 ft, asphalt
N77AQRegistered now · Mckinnon G21GAirframe modelMckinnon G21GEngine modelPratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A
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
- 60
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 24,200 total · 103 in this make and model · 23,435 as pilot in command · 107 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE, 12 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.