- Date
- April 25, 1989, 16:35 local (21:35 UTC)
- Place
- Detroit, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N444EACessna 411
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890425063039A
- Case key
- 14344
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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Probable cause
Failure of a bolt in the left main landing gear assembly.
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.
Gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear attachment - failure,totalCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N444EA
- Reported as
- Cessna 411
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 411A0267
- Airframe hours
- 10,134
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-C, 340 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Jetstream, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Bonnair, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 1988 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- DET · Detroit, MI
- Destination
- DET · Detroit, MI
- Airport
- DET · Detroit City, runway 33, 5,090 × 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
- 21
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,530 total · 2 in this make and model · 1,470 as pilot in command · 83 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DET
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.