- Date
- March 11, 1992, 17:30 local (Mar 12, 1992, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Long Beach, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N1362CCessna 340A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920311005849A
- Case key
- 27572
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Probable cause
The fatigue failure of the left main landing gear down lock bell crank pivot bolt.
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
ATCT controllers reported the aircraft made a normal landing and had slowed to a fast walk speed in preparation for making a 90 degree turn off the runway. As the aircraft turned, the left main landing gear collapsed. The aircraft was examined by an FAA airworthiness inspector who reported that the pivot bolt for the left main landing gear down lock bell crank had failed, which allowed the bell crank to shift and break the rod end fitting. Without the down lock assembly, the left main landing gear collapsed. The inspector said the failed pivot bolt exhibited clear Beach markings on the fracture face. The pivot bolt, Cessna part number NAS464P4-26, was an original factory installation and had accumulated a total time in service of 2,013 hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1362C
- Reported as
- Cessna 340A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340A0012
- Airframe hours
- 2,013
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-N, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Corporate Air, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Corporate Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 16, 1992 · 21 hours before
- Airport
- LGB · Daugherty Field, runway 3, 10,000 × 200 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
- 30
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,282 total · 21 in this make and model · 2,125 as pilot in command · 158 in the last 90 days · 41 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1362C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.