- Date
- April 23, 1986, 07:07 local (13:07 UTC)
- Place
- Panama City, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90676Piper PA-60
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860423013489A
- Case key
- 31609
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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 on his apch he had a gear down & locked indication but on landing rollout, the nose gear completely collapsed and the acft slid to a stop on the rwy. Post accident examination of the landing gear system revealed that the nose gear collapsed due to a hydraulic leak in the nose gear actuator.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90676
- Reported as
- Piper PA-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 60-0331-122
- Airframe hours
- 1,800
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1F5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Cherokee Express Air Cargo Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 1, 1986
- Departed
- TLH · Tallahassee, FL
- Airport
- PFN · Panama City, runway 32, 6,308 × 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
- 33
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,074 total · 749 in this make and model · 211 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TLH, 75 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.