- Date
- November 27, 1992, 05:15 local (11:15 UTC)
- Place
- Rice Lake, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7989QCessna 401B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921127048349A
- Case key
- 15629
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Probable cause
Improper rigging of the right main landing gear retract bellcrank by other maintenance personnel.
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 of an on-demand air freight operation was on landing rollout at his destination when the right main landing gear collapsed. The investigation revealed that the right main landing gear retract bellcrank attaching bolt had failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7989Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 401B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 401B0208
- Airframe hours
- 5,840
- Engine
- Continental TISO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Freight Runners Express, Inc., doing business as Air Charter Express
- Registered owner
- Freight Runners Express, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 23, 1992 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- EAU · Eau Claire, WI
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RIE · Rice Lake, runway 36, 3,728 × 60 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 1,200 in this make and model · 3,950 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.