- Date
- January 19, 2000, 15:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Palmetto, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N82029Aeronca 7AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000119000289A
- Case key
- 48539
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Probable cause
Failure for undetermined reasons of the right main landing gear strut during landing resulting in collapse of the right main landing gear.
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 pilot stated that while landing the right main landing gear strut failed at a weld on the top part of the strut. The right main gear collapsed and folded under the aircraft. He welded the strut back on to relocate the aircraft. The fracture was destroyed and could not be examined by NTSB.
Factual narrative
On January 19, 2000, about 1545 eastern standard time, an Aeronca 7AC, N82029, registered to an individual, sustained damage when the right main landing gear collapsed during landing at Airport Manatee, Palmetto, Florida, while on a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft received substantial damage and the commercial-rated pilot was not injured. The flight last departed Palmetto, Florida, the same day, about 1540.
The pilot stated that while landing at Airport Manatee, the right main landing gear strut failed and the gear folded under the fuselage. The right wing tip contacted the ground and the aircraft rolled about 50 feet and came to rest. When he examined the collapsed right main landing gear after the accident, he determined the gear had collapsed due to a broken weld on the upper part of the strut assembly. He welded the separated gear back onto the aircraft to relocate the aircraft. The separation fracture surface was destroyed and could not be examined by NTSB.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N82029
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7AC-655
- Airframe hours
- 4,169
- Engine
- Continental C85-12, 85 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Larry W. Peters
- Registered owner
- C. R. Fox
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1999 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- 48X
- Airport
- 48X · Airport Manatee, runway 25, 3,714 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 5,500 total · 320 in this make and model · 5,500 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SRQ, 15 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.