- Date
- May 20, 1999, 13:20 local (19:20 UTC)
- Place
- Englewood, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64TABeech D95A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 22, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 46416
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Probable cause
The collapse of the right main landing gear during landing due to a fatigue crack, in the strut, which had an undetermined origin.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot said he was performing his third touch-and-go landing when during the ground roll the right main landing gear collapsed. The airplane went down on its right wing. Subsequently, the right wing was bent upwards, and the right side of the fuselage was wrinkled. Postaccident examination of the right main landing gear strut, by a private metallurgist contracted by the insurance company, revealed a preexisting fatigue fracture which extended through approximately 50 percent of the strut.
Factual narrative
On May 20, 1999, approximately 1320 mountain daylight time, a Beech D95A, N64TA, was substantially damaged when the right main landing gear collapsed during landing roll at Centennial Airport, Englewood, Colorado. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant in the airplane, was not injured. The airplane was being operated by Enterprise Aircraft Management, Inc., of Denver, Colorado, under Title 14 CFR Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local flight which originated approximately 30 minutes before the accident. No flight plan had been filed.
The pilot said he was performing his third touch-and-go landing when, during the ground roll, the right main landing gear collapsed. The airplane went down on its right wing. Subsequently, the right wing was bent upwards and the right side of the fuselage was wrinkled.
Postaccident examination of the right main landing gear strut, by a private metallurgist contracted by the insurance company, revealed a preexisting fatigue fracture which extended through approximately 50 percent of the strut.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64TA
- Reported as
- Beech D95A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TD-568
- Airframe hours
- 6,365
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1B, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bruce Vogel
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 15, 1999 · 104 hours before
- Departed
- APA
- Airport
- APA · Centennial Airport, runway 35L, 7,004 × 77 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
- 62
- 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
- 500 total · 81 in this make and model · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 11 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APA