- Date
- July 24, 1991, 12:20 local (19:20 UTC)
- Place
- Sacramento, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6045MBeech 76
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910724029749A
- Case key
- 27304
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Probable cause
A fatigue failure of the landing gear strut due to an inadequate design by the manufacturer. Contributing to the accident was maintenance personnel not having completed an inspection of the gear strut, in accordance with the manufacturer's service bulletin.
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 certificated airline pilot/flight instructor, the pilot-in-command, was demonstrating a single engine landing to a certificated private pilot/dual instructional student. During the landing roll, the airplane began to drift to the right. The PIC attempted to correct the drift by increasing the right engine power and applying left rudder. The airplane right wing began to settle to the ground and the pilot shut down both engines. The airplane received damage to the right gear flaps and propeller. An inspection revealed that the right gear strut was broken at an inspection hole provided by the manufacturer. The gear strut was the subject of a manufacturer's service bulletin and subsequent FAA airworthiness directive that required an inspection for cracks. Maintenance personnel had received the service bulletin but had not scheduled an inspection.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6045M
- Reported as
- Beech 76
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- ME184
- Airframe hours
- 2,384
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Altair Aviation Corp.
- Registered owner
- David Justice & Assoc. & Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 26, 1991 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- 2Q3 · Davis, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SAC · Sacramento Executive, runway 2, 5,503 × 150 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
- 45
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 9,200 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 6,750 as pilot in command · 112 in the last 90 days · 51 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAC, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.