- Date
- July 14, 1990, 16:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Webster, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8095YPiper PA-30B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900714025839A
- Case key
- 14716
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Probable cause
The failure of the nose gear transmission mounting bracket which resulted in nose gear collapse during the landing roll.
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 pilot stated that his pre-landing checklist was satisfactory, with the gear down light illiminating and the nose wheel visible in the mirror. The pilot reported that the main landing gear touched down about 100 feet past the displaced threshold, but he 'never felt the nosegear touch...heard left propeller strike the pavement first.' Post-accident examination revealed that the transmission mounting bracket in the nose wheel well was broken out of its channel assembly.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8095Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30-1213
- Airframe hours
- 2,160
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph V. Davis
- Registered owner
- N8095y, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 13, 1990 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- 21D · Lake Elmo, MN
- Airport
- Y05 · Voyager Village, runway 22, 3,500 × 55 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,790 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 4,445 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 12 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.