- Date
- September 10, 1982, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tomball, TX
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3980ACessna 310R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820910048619A
- Case key
- 72833
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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
The right main landing gear collapsed on landing roll. The aircraft departed the runway and crossed a drainage ditch sustaining substantial damage to the fuselage. Inspection of the landing gear revealed the bolt that connects the retraction drag link, pn 0841226-4, to the landing gear strut was broken.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3980A
- Reported as
- Cessna 310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310R 1346
- Airframe hours
- 1,564
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-M, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Thomas R. Mcelhenney
- Registered owner
- Thomas R. Mcelhenney
- Departed
- AI · Austin, TX
- Destination
- AI · Tomball, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DWH · David Wayne Hooks, runway 17, 7,000 × 0 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 10,883 total · 324 in this make and model · 10,772 as pilot in command · 111 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.