- Date
- June 3, 1987, 18:28 local (22:28 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N180PAPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31796
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear strut - fatigueCause
Material inadequateCause
Landing gear,main gear strut - failure,totalCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not possible
Analysis
During the landing roll the rt main landing gear collapsed. Examination of the landing gear revealed that the strut housing (trunnion) failed due to overload which was precipitated by fatigue and caused by a stress riser located on a manufacturing seam.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N180PA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 447995405
- Airframe hours
- 4,349
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-EIA6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviators Unlimited
- Registered owner
- Cherly C Paramore
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 22, 1987 · 71 hours before
- Airport
- CRG · Craig Municipal, runway 13, 4,007 × 100 ft, asphalt
N180PARegistration cancelled Jan 17, 2019 · Piper PA-44-180Airframe modelPiper PA-44-180Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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
- 53
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 4,368 total · 605 in this make and model · 4,233 as pilot in command · 320 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRG