- Date
- July 24, 1991, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Goodwin, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N634UGrumman G-164
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910724029889A
- Case key
- 23206
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Probable cause
The failure of the right main landing gear.
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 spring failed at the fuselage attaching point during a landing to a grass strip. Following the gear failure, the pilot lost control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N634U
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 370
- Airframe hours
- 8,913
- Engine
- P&W R985-AN-1, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Gary J. Michaelis
- Registered owner
- Gary J. Michaelis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 11, 1991 · 417 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 9, 2,600 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,467 total · 1,171 in this make and model · 1,400 as pilot in command · 275 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 72 °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.
Other investigations on N634U · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.