- Date
- February 25, 1982, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eunice, LA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N100CACessna 421B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820225001939A
- Case key
- 70627
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Analysis
Shortly after touchdown during a landing. The left main gear collapsed. The aircraft then veered off the left side of the runway and struck a ditch. The right main and nose gear collapsed after striking the ditch. An examination of the left gear revealed that a bolt in the left bellcrank assembly, pn 5041001-5, had sheared. Also, one ear of the lower clevis on the bellcrank had broken. Metallurgical examination revealed that the fracture characteristics were indicative of an overstress separation. Research of the Cessna 421B landing gear system revealed that this type of failure could occur if the landing gear mechanism is improperly rigged. However, no determination was made concerning the adequacy of the aircraft inspections.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N100CA
- Reported as
- Cessna 421B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421B0503
- Airframe hours
- 1,535
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-H, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Performance Air Charter
- Registered owner
- Victor D. Poor
- Departed
- Abbeville, LA
- Destination
- Eunice, LA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 4R7 · Eunice Airport, runway 34, 5,000 × 75 ft, macadam
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 6,215 total · 85 in this make and model · 6,010 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 140 °F
- Observed at
- LFT, 15 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N100CA · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.