- Date
- August 4, 1989, 09:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Brighton, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8203GCessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890804064959A
- Case key
- 17757
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Probable cause
Failure of the landing gear down lock, which allowed the landing gear to collapse during the landing.
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 took off on a flt from heckendorf ranch strip (CO13) to van aire arpt (CO12), which was nearby, to load the acft & proceed on another flt. Before landing (at CO12), he moved the gear selector down & noted a safe indicator light. At touchdown, both main gear collapsed & the plane tracked off the rwy to the left. After leaving the rwy, the nose gear collapsed in the dirt & the wings & fuselage were damaged. An investigation revealed the down lock spring had failed & allowed the downlock to release at touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8203G
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0103
- Airframe hours
- 1,578
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lester E. & Ruth F. Stevens,Jr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 27, 1989 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- CO13 · Brighton, CO
- Destination
- CO12
- Airport
- CO12 · Van Aire, runway 30, 3,950 × 50 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
- 48
- 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
- 763 total · 58 in this make and model · 658 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.