- Date
- December 30, 1991, 12:40 local (18:40 UTC)
- Place
- Orange, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N20489Cessna 180K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911230057479A
- Case key
- 18429
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Probable cause
The ruptured left main gear tire for undetermined reasons.
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.
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,tire - rupturedCause
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Nose over
Analysis
During the landing roll the left main gear tire ruptured resulting in a nose over of the tailwheel airplane onto the runway surface. Nothing unusual was found with the condition of the tire or the rim by the FAA coordinator.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20489
- Reported as
- Cessna 180K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18053189
- Airframe hours
- 3,012
- Engine
- Continental O-470U-18B, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Lion Oil Company
- Registered owner
- Lion Oil Company
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 7, 1991 · 274 hours before
- Departed
- ELD · El Dorado, AR
- Destination
- ORG · Orange, TX
- Airport
- ORG · Orange County, runway 3, 3,800 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,964 total · 6,087 in this make and model · 8,964 as pilot in command · 148 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BPT, 10 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.