- Date
- October 25, 1985, 08:50 local (12:50 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N67876Cessna 402C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19851025059419I
- Case key
- 31517
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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.
Analysis
The plt stated that he made a normal apch to rwy 12 buy on landing rollout as the nose of the acft touched down the nose gear ass'y folded & the acft slid to a stop, post crash examination of the acft revealed that the green light for the nose gear remained on regardless of the landing gear position due to a broken lead wire on the # 5 pole of the nose landing gear position micro switch, this micro switch also activates the hydraulic pressure which holds the gear in the locked position, therefore the plt obtained a down and locked indication with the gear not actually locked in the down position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67876
- Reported as
- Cessna 402C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402CO424
- Airframe hours
- 3,892
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-VB, 325 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Gull Air,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Allen F. Jones
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 24, 1985 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- PBI · West Palm Bch, FL
- Airport
- MIA · Miami, runway 12, 9,600 × 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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,675 total · 1,005 in this make and model · 1,000 as pilot in command · 277 in the last 90 days · 42 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIA, 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.