- Date
- August 2, 1986, 11:56 local (18:56 UTC)
- Place
- Ukiah, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3CJJaks Volksplane VP-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 24974
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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 maintainedFactor
Diverted attentionFactor
Remedial action - excessiveFactor
TotalFactor
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - pressure excessive
Brakes(emergency) - excessiveCause
Landing gear,main gear - failure,total
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
At the end of a local flight, during the landing roll, the plt was distracted and allowed the acft to veer to the right side of the rwy. The plt applied the brakes when the left main landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3CJ
- Reported as
- Jaks Volksplane VP-2 (VOLKSPLANE)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- V2-1994
- Airframe hours
- 100
- Engine
- Volkswagen CONVERSION, 70 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Theadore E. Asher
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 19, 1986 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- UKT · Okiah Municipal Airport, runway 33, 4,400 × 150 ft, asphalt
N3CJRegistration cancelled Jul 16, 2002 · Jaks VOLKSPLANE VP-2Airframe modelJaks VOLKSPLANE VP-2Engine modelAmateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
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
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 220 total · 30 in this make and model · 190 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- UKI