- Date
- August 4, 1988, 17:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hurricane, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6XYBraswell Scirroco MJ5-K2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880804030199A
- Case key
- 17519
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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.
Analysis
The plt said he made a short flt to check out a mag. The eng performed satisfactorily and he landed. Upon touchdown one of the main landing gear collapsed and the tailwheel equipped acft ground looped. The plt said a gear downlock failed. The FAA airworthiness insp who examined the wreckage said that the downlock system was so badly damaged in the accd that he could not determine the nature of the downlock failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6XY
- Reported as
- Braswell Scirroco MJ5-K2 (SCIRROCO M)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 228
- Airframe hours
- 64
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Beesley, Clay T.
- Registered owner
- Beesley, Clay T.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 21, 1987 · 28 hours before
- Departed
- 1L8
- Destination
- 1L8
- Airport
- 1L8 · Hurricane, runway 18, 3,400 × 45 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 64 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 95 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.