- Date
- April 19, 1983, 22:46 local (Apr 20, 1983, 04:46 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas, TX
- Injuries
- 10 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N29AABeech 65-90
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830419034229A
- Case key
- 20866
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 pilot said that the approach and landing were normal with the right main gear touching first because of a slight x-wind. Just after touchdown, the left main gear failed and the aircraft went off the side of the runway. Examination of the failed gear revealed the upper half of the the scissor assembly separated, allowing the oleo piston and attached wheel assy to separate from the remainder of the gear. Examination of the broken scissor assy revealed a small fatigue crack in the separated area but the ultimate failure was the result of a large overload condition which had been applied to the part on some previous occasion.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29AA
- Reported as
- Beech 65-90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LF-110
- Airframe hours
- 7,622
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-6, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Alpha Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · March 21, 1983
- Departed
- AUS · Austin, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DAL · Love, runway 31R, 7,751 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,229 total · 565 in this make and model · 2,089 as pilot in command · 122 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 60° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.