# NTSB ERA24LA298: Globe GC1B, N3301K, Peachtree City, GA, June 25, 2024

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report
- Date: June 25, 2024, 11:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place: Peachtree City, GA
- Coordinates: 33.357722, -84.572528 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.3577&lon=-84.5725&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class: Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office: Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties: FAA/FSDO
- NTSB case key (mKey): 194657
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA24LA298
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/194657/pdf
- NTSB docket: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=194657
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA24LA298

## Probable cause

A right main landing gear collapse during landing.

## Findings

NTSB's coded findings; those marked are part of the probable cause.

- [Landing gear system: gear extension and retract sys](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023230): Aircraft › Aircraft systems · Failure (probable cause); cases with it: [Globe GC-1B, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023230/cases.md?model=9230104), [All aircraft, 416 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01023230/cases.md)

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094) (defining event); cases with it: [Globe GC-1B, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094/sequence.md?model=9230104), [All aircraft, 1,787 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/094/sequence.md)
- [Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300); cases with it: [Globe GC-1B, 2 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300/sequence.md?model=9230104), [All aircraft, 3,643 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/300/sequence.md)

## Analysis

The pilot entered the traffic pattern at the destination airport and extended the airplane’s landing gear. Shortly after touchdown, the airplane began an “uncontrollable swerve” to the right. The right wingtip impacted the runway surface as the airplane departed the right side of the runway, resulting in substantial damage to the underside of the fuselage and the right wingtip. Following the accident, the pilot examined the airplane and found that the right main landing gear was collapsed and that two of the locking struts on the right main landing gear had broken.

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N3301K](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N3301K), registered now, S/N 1294, built 1956 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: GLOBE GC1B
- Registry model: [Globe GC-1B](https://openairdocs.org/model/globe-gc-1b) (registry code 9230104) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG](https://openairdocs.org/engine/amateur-built-unknown-eng) (registry code 99999) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 1294
- Year built: 1956
- Airframe hours: 2613
- Engines: Continental O-300-D 145 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Annual, March 11, 2024, 16 hours before
- Departed: 5A9, Warm Springs, GA
- Destination: Same as departure
- Airport: FFC, Atlanta Rgnl Falcon Fld, runway 31, 5,768 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment: ADS-B

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 83; injuries: none; remote, flight instructor, airline transport; airplane ratings: multi-engine land, single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, with waivers/limitations; last flight review September 12, 2023; seat: left; flight hours: 9,900 total, 430 in this make and model, 8,426 as pilot in command, 42 in the last 90 days, 22 in the last 30 days, 1 in the last 24 hours

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: calm
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 91 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter: 30.00 inHg
- Observed at: FFC
- METAR: METAR KFFC 251553Z AUTO 10SM CLR 33/14 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP150 T03330144=

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20240625021809A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20240625021809A), Jun 25, 2024: Globe GC-1B, Peachtree City, GA, Substantial damage. Interview of the pilot: At approximately 1130 EDT, 25 June 2024, the PIC landed aircraft, swift GC-1B [privacy data omitted], on runway 31 at kffc, Falcon…

## Other investigations on N3301K (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB FTW67F0075](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW67F0075), Jul 22, 1966: Globe GC-1B (N3301K), Addison, TX, substantial damage

## Docket (4 files)

The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 22, 2024, on NTSB's docket system: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=194657.

- Pilot/operator aircraft accident report, NTSB form 6120.1 (item 1, PDF, 9 pages, 2.6 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17802513&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=NTSB%206120.1_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Memorandum for record a�� pilot statement (item 2, PDF, 1 page, 86 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17813297&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Pilot%20Statement%20MOR-Rel.pdf
- Investigation photographs (item 3, PDF, 4 pages, 1.3 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17802604&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Investigation%20Photographs%20N3301K-Rel.pdf
- Airport surveillance video (item 4, MOV): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17810262&FileExtension=mov&FileName=Screen%20Recording%202024-06-27%20at%208.34.39%E2%80%AFAM-Rel.mov

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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