- Date
- November 3, 1993, 14:46 local (21:46 UTC)
- Place
- Pagosa Springs, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9516EBellanca BL17-31ATC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 1, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19931103042329A
- Case key
- 18963
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Probable cause
Failure by the pilot in command to maintain control of the aircraft during landing roll.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
During landing roll, the aircraft departed the left side of the runway and the right main landing gear collapsed. Examination of the aircraft provided no evidence of brake or steering malfunction or failure.
Factual narrative
On November 3, 1993, at 1446 mountain standard time, a Bellanca BL17-31ATC, N9516E, was substantially damaged when the right main landing gear collapsed after the airplane departed the side of the runway at Stevens Field, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The pilot and his passenger were not injured and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for this personal flight which departed from Plainview, Texas, at 1246 central standard time.
According to the pilot, the left brake locked during the landing roll and the aircraft went off the left side of the runway. The pilot said that during this excursion, the right main landing gear collapsed and the nose gear was distorted. The airframe sustained damage around the right main gear mount.
Examination of the aircraft by an Federal Aviation Administration inspector provided no evidence of a brake system malfunction. Examination of the runway provided witness marks of skidding of both main tires and scrubbing of the nose tire in a curve to the left.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9516E
- Reported as
- Bellanca BL17-31ATC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 76-31133
- Airframe hours
- 1,709
- Engine
- Lycoming TSIO-540-KIES, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Weathers, Isaac B.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 16, 1993 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- PVW · Plainview, TX
- Destination
- 2V1
- Airport
- 2V1 · Stevens Field, runway 19, 9,000 × 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 471 total · 398 in this make and model · 423 as pilot in command · 93 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- 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.