- Date
- July 7, 1989, 04:55 local (10:55 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Benton, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2802JCessna T188C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890707023789A
- Case key
- 17749
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Probable cause
Overload failure of the left main landing gear attaching bolts for an unknown reason.
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 was taking off on a dirt strip with a load of chemicals. After the acft accelerated to about 60 KTS, the left main landing gear collapsed. The acft then settled onto its left wing & was damaged. The plt said the attachingbolts on the gear had failed. An exam revealed the bolts were necked down in the area of the fracture (indicative of overload failure).
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2802J
- Reported as
- Cessna T188C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T18803515T
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-T, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Taylor Aviation, Inc., doing business as Box 134
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE, runway 27, 2,400 × 75 ft, dirt
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,600 total · 1,300 in this make and model · 2,400 as pilot in command · 270 in the last 90 days · 150 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 255° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2802J · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.