- Date
- July 17, 1986, 07:49 local (11:49 UTC)
- Place
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N76QBeech D18S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860717054849I
- Case key
- 31527
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
On this page
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
Flight experienced collapse of the right main landing gear during landing roll when the bolt which attaches the upper end of the drag leg failed in fatigue. Company maintenance personnel did not remove this bolt regularly for inspection. Beech aircraft service instruction 1183 calls for inspecting this bolt on aircraft equipped with certain part number drag legs, however this aircraft was not affected by the instruction due to the drag leg installed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N76Q
- Reported as
- Beech D18S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AF39
- Airframe hours
- 7,125
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN1-14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pelican Transport Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 30, 1986 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- LNA · Lantana, FL
- Airport
- FLL · Ft. Lauderdale Hollywood, runway 9L, 8,018 × 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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,295 total · 400 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL
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 N76Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.