- Date
- February 19, 1965
- Place
- Long Beach, CA · LONG BEACH, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8540MBeechcraft 95-B55
- Status
- Completed · report July 8, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 179228
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1096 65/2/19 LONG BEACH CALIF BEECHCRAFT 95-B55 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 42, 1458 TIME - 1200 N8540M PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 33 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LONG BEACH MUN TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE REMARKS- RIGT GEAR RETRACT TUBE DAMAGED ON PREV.TAKEOFF.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8540M
- Reported as
- Beechcraft 95-B55
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Long Beach Mun
N8540MRegistered now · Beech 95-B55 (T42A)Airframe modelBeech 95-B55 (T42A)Engine modelContinental I0-470 series
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Other investigations on N8540M · 1
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