- Date
- June 6, 1999, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2276GCessna 182B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19990606021569A
- Case key
- 46471
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Probable cause
Failure of the nose landing gear scissors bolt for undetermined reasons.
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
During landing roll, the aircraft nose landing gear collapsed due to a failure of the torque link scissors bolt. Examination of the scissors revealed that the bolt was missing, the bolt hole was not damaged or elongated, and no evidence of the bolt could be found.
Factual narrative
On June 6, 1999, at 1100 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 182B, N2276G, sustained substantial damage during landing roll at Salt Lake City International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah, when the nose wheel collapsed. The private pilot and his two passengers were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for this local area pleasure flight operating under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. The flight departed at 0945.
According to the pilot, as he lowered the nose landing gear to the runway during landing roll, the nose wheel started to shimmy followed by radical departure to the right. Full left brake and rudder had no effect and the nose wheel collapsed. The pilot said the aircraft propeller and left wing struck the ground and the aircraft came to rest nose down with the nose landing gear folded rearward and cocked at a 90 degree angle.
Examination of the aircraft by a FAA airworthiness inspector provided information that the scissors bolt on the nose wheel landing gear torque link was missing. On examination of the landing area, the inspector, assisted by airport personnel, could find no evidence of the bolt, and the bolthole in the scissors assembly was not damaged or elongated.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2276G
- Reported as
- Cessna 182B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 51576
- Airframe hours
- 2,141
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gareth A. Knight
- Registered owner
- Stepehen R. Harding
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1998 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- SLC
- Airport
- SLC · Salt Lake City Int'L, runway 16L, 9,596 × 150 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 239 total · 11 in this make and model · 239 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 17 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 14,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SLC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.