- Date
- February 1, 1986, 19:45 local (Feb 2, 1986, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Folkston, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9784QPiper PA-60
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860201034409I
- Case key
- 31523
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt stated that while on a flight from tampa, to jacksonville FL, he made an unauthorized deviation & landed at davis field Folkston ga, where the left main landing gear collapsed. Post crash examination of the acft revealed that the gear collapsed due to the failure of the left main landing gear outboard retract strut ass'y.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9784Q
- Reported as
- Piper PA-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 60-0416-143
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-KIF5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Top Flight Air Serivce
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- X16 · Tampa, FL
- Destination
- JAX · Jacksonville, FL
- Airport
- 3J6 · Davis Field, runway 35, 2,500 × 50 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
- 26
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,189 total · 245 in this make and model · 1,298 as pilot in command · 205 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAX, 20 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.
Other investigations on N9784Q · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.