- Date
- January 26, 1983, 11:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lompoc, CA
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N11JRCessna 401
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830126002249A
- Case key
- 23417
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft went off the left side of the runway during landing after the left main landing gear collapsed. This was an airtaxi flight and one of the passengers confirmed that all 3 landing gear green lights were illuminated. Examination of the left main gear wheel well area revealed the left strut bellcrank attach flange forging and the connecting bolt. P/n was 464P4-26 were fractured. The strut forging failed in tensile overload. The connecting bolt fractured by tensile shear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N11JR
- Reported as
- Cessna 401
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0052
- Airframe hours
- 3,761
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Aaa Air Charter, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 8, 1983 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- SFO · San Francisco, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LPC · Lompoc, runway 7, 3,600 × 100 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15,339 total · 339 in this make and model · 15,029 as pilot in command · 134 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °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.