- Date
- June 8, 1989, 20:45 local (Jun 9, 1989, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Elyria, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2529DPiper PA-38-112
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890608015209A
- Case key
- 14364
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Probable cause
Failure (shearing) of the right main gear attaching bolts. A contributing factor was: failure of the owner/operator to comply with service bulletin #673B.
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
The acft was on the roll-out after landing when it began to pull to the right. Subsequently, it went off the right side of the rwy & came to rest with the right main gear collapsed. An exam revealed the attaching bolts for the right main gear had failed. The bolts had been installed in August of 1983 iaw AD 83-05-04. Since that time, the acft had accumulated 2467 hrs of flt time. Piper service bulleting (s/b) #673B, dated 10/2/86, recommended that the attaching bolts be replaced with new higher strength bolts. S/b #673B had not been incorporated on this acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2529D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38-112
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3879A0355
- Airframe hours
- 4,138
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 112 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hurst Flight Training, doing business as Hurst Flight Training
- Registered owner
- Ecm Airways Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 7, 1989 · 5 hours before
- Destination
- 22G
- Airport
- 225 · Lorain County, runway 7, 5,000 × 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 215 total · 50 in this make and model · 148 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 20° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CLE, 14 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.