- Date
- May 27, 1987, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Prairie, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N41788Piper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870527018739A
- Case key
- 22374
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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,tire - burstCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Landing gear,main gear - failure,total
Analysis
During landing roll the right main landing gear tire failed causing a loss of directional control. The acft departed the right side of the rwy, and the right main landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41788
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-7450153
- Airframe hours
- 4,344
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1E6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- P. J. Wolcott
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 18, 1986 · 31 hours before
- Departed
- F67
- Destination
- F67
- Airport
- F67 · Grand Prairie Municipal, runway 17, 4,000 × 75 ft, concrete
N41788Registration cancelled Oct 6, 2014 · Piper PA-34-200Airframe modelPiper PA-34-200Engine modelLycoming I0360 series
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,508 total · 103 in this make and model · 1,312 as pilot in command · 118 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- 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.