- Date
- July 9, 1984, 16:57 local (23:57 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Ana, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N222LTHelio H-295
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840709030769A
- Case key
- 24337
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertent
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear shock absorbing strut - overload
Analysis
As the tailwheel settled to the rwy the acft veered right and ground looped collapsing the left main ldg gear. The left main gear oleo strut failed due to tensile overload.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N222LT
- Reported as
- Helio H-295
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1442
- Airframe hours
- 1,698
- Engine
- Lycoming GO-480-G1D6, 295 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jack Linkletter
- Registered owner
- Linkletter Properties
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 15, 1983 · 107 hours before
- Departed
- O03 · San Andreas, CA
- Destination
- SNA
- Airport
- SNA · John Wayne Airport, runway 19R, 5,700 × 150 ft, asphalt
N222LTRegistration cancelled Nov 18, 2009 · Helio H-295Airframe modelHelio H-295Engine modelLycoming GO-480 series
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,178 total · 285 in this make and model · 2,092 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SNA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.