- Date
- May 30, 1985, 07:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- San Jose, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N22WCBeech 65-A90
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850530021169A
- Case key
- 24732
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While landing the right main landing gear of the aircraft seperated when the upper torque knee link failed. After the gear separated the aircraft skidded off the right side of the runway coming to rest in a grass area. Metallurgical examination of the failed torque knee revealed it failed due to fatigue cracking which was caused by gouges in the surface of the link which caused stress concentrations. The gouges had been painted over. The aircraft was maintained in accordance with Beech aircraft corportations progressive maintenance program which requires the landing gear torque knee links to be replaced or overhauled each 5 years or 5000 cycles. No record of this having been accomplished could be found in the aircrafts logbooks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22WC
- Reported as
- Beech 65-A90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ-214
- Airframe hours
- 6,363
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- King Hi-Tech Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · August 11, 1984 · 133 hours before
- Departed
- APV · Apple Valley, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SJC · San Jose International, runway 30, 4,418 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,500 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 7,500 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SJC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.