- Date
- September 10, 2012, 16:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Opa-Locka, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N218LGCessna 402B
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 14, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20120910017959I
- Case key
- 85003
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s turning the airplane too sharply while exiting the runway, which resulted in the failure of the right main landing gear bellcrank due to an overstress fracture.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The airline transport pilot had landed the airplane after conducting a personal flight. He stated that, while turning left off of the active runway after landing, the airplane "began veering to the left" and that the right main landing gear (MLG) subsequently collapsed. Examination of the right MLG revealed that it had failed. Examination of the landing gear bellcrank revealed that one of the clevis knuckles on the long bellcrank arm was fractured. The fracture surface had a rough appearance and was at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the clevis arm, consistent with an overstress fracture. No other anomalies were noted with the landing gear.
Factual narrative
On September 10, 2012, about 1650 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 402B, N218LG, landed at Opa-Locka Executive Airport (OPF), Miami, Florida, and after clearing the runway, the right main landing gear collapsed. The airline transport-rated pilot and two passengers were not injured. The airplane sustained minor damage. The airplane was registered to and operated by Waymen Aviation Services Inc. under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated from OPF at 1600. The pilot stated that, while turning left off of the active runway after landing, the airplane "began veering to the left," and the right main landing gear subsequently collapsed. The right main landing gear was examined by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector, and he confirmed the damage to the right main landing gear assembly. The landing gear bellcrank was sent to the NTSB materials laboratory for examination. The bellcrank consisted of a long arm, approximately 7.5 inches long, and a short arm, approximately 2.1 inches long, with a 105-degree included angle between the two. The end of each arm was shaped in the form of a clevis. One of the clevis knuckles on the long bellcrank arm was fractured. The fracture surface had a rough appearance and was at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the clevis arm, consistent with an overstress fracture. No other anomalies were noted with the landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N218LG
- Reported as
- Cessna 402B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B0218
- Airframe hours
- 8,216
- Engines
- Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER, 300 horsepower, reciprocatingCont Motor TSIO-520 SER, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wayman Aviation Services Inc
- Registered owner
- Wayman Aviation Services Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 6, 2012 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- OPF · Opa-Locka, FL
- Destination
- OPF · Opa-Locka, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OPF · Opa-Locka Executive Airport, runway 27R, 4,309 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 3, 2011
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 9,433 total · 3,000 in this make and model · 8,843 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- OPF
Docket · 8
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 3, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 20.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.