- Date
- November 13, 1984, 18:39 local (23:39 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1053UPiper PA-34-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841113071509I
- Case key
- 31276
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Analysis
The nose cear collapsed during a landing. An exam disclosed that the hydraulic actuator firewall mounting bracket had failed prior to complete extension of the nose gear. Piper service bulletin, sb 413, related to this problem; however, no logbook entry was found to verify compliance.
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.
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,normal retraction/extension assembly - failure,totalCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1053U
- Reported as
- Piper PA-34-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 34-750036
- Airframe hours
- 1,125
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Verdaguer
- Registered owner
- Gpc Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LBU · Labelle, FL
- Airport
- TMB · Tamiami, runway 9, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,688 total · 130 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 350° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.