- Date
- June 1, 1983, 14:49 local (21:49 UTC)
- Place
- North Las Vegas, NV
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6293QCessna 401A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830601022039A
- Case key
- 23733
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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 acfts main landing gear collapsed during landing touchdown. After the right main gear collapsed the acft veered to the right and came to rest about 600 ft beyond the threshold and 90 ft northwest of the rwy edge. An FAA inspector said 'it appears that an adjusting screw (p/n 0841113-1) on the retraction linkage failed. This caused the right main gear toretract and shear a bolt (p/n nas 46404-26) on the bellcrank assembly.' According to a Cessna representative the failurecould be the result of wear or misrigging. The company owning and operating the acft ceased flt operations about six months after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6293Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 401A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 401A0093
- Airframe hours
- 6,824
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Abba Industries Inc., doing business as Abba Industries Inc.
- Registered owner
- Abba Industries Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 27, 1983 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- SNA · Santa Ana, CA
- Destination
- VGT · North Las Vegas, NV
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- VGT · North Las Vegas, runway 22, 3,270 × 65 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
- 36
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,021 total · 743 in this make and model · 3,990 as pilot in command · 182 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 29 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °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.