- Date
- May 10, 1985, 17:27 local (22:27 UTC)
- Place
- Mckinney, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N888KCessna 421
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850510016649A
- Case key
- 21747
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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
After landing while taxiing on the rwy, the acft's nose wheel started bogging down in soft asphalt on the rwy. The soft asphalt was pushed along in front of the wheel until it caused enough resistance to overstress the nose gear causing it to collapse. The acft's nose then impacted the rwy resulting in substantial damage to the acft. The asphalt had not been rolled/packed enough to support the weight of the subject acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N888K
- Reported as
- Cessna 421
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4210088
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-D, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Km&D Energy Inc.
- Registered owner
- Mk & D Energy, Inc.
- Departed
- F26 · Plano, TX
- Airport
- TX05 · Aero Country, runway 17, 2,950 × 40 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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAL, 35 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.