- Date
- December 5, 1987, 11:40 local (16:40 UTC)
- Place
- Opa Locka, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N317LCessna 310F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871205070509A
- Case key
- 32104
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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 had made three touch & go landings & on the fourth landing, while on rollout, the left main gear collapsed & the acft slid to a stop on the runway. Post crash examination of the landing gear revealed that the left main gear downlock rod broke allowing the gear to collapse.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N317L
- Reported as
- Cessna 310F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3100126
- Airframe hours
- 4,156
- Engine
- Continental IO-470D, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Airways Charter, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Airways Charter Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 10, 1987 · 94 hours before
- Airport
- OPF · Opa Locka, runway 36R, 4,374 × 244 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
- 27
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 400 total · 29 in this make and model · 100 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB, 6 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.