- Date
- March 30, 1984, 13:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- El Paso, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5039QCessna 402B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840330009819A
- Case key
- 21297
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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
During gear extension in preparation for landing the nose gear failed to extend fully even though emergency gear extension proceedures were performed. The plt steered the acft off to the right of the rwy shortly after touchdown. Acftinspection revealed a collapsed nose gear strut with the nose gear jammed in the retract position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5039Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 402B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B0346
- Airframe hours
- 2,950
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Airways Of New Mexico Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 28, 1984 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- ROW · Roswell, NM
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ELP · El Paso Intl., runway 26R, 5,600 × 75 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,940 total · 232 in this make and model · 1,870 as pilot in command · 251 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.