- Date
- June 13, 1988, 15:25 local (19:25 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7628QCessna 402B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880613021549A
- Case key
- 32191
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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 right main gear collapsed on touchdown. An exam of the gear revealed that a fork bolt had been improperly adjusted. The facility that performed the last maintenance denied adjusting the bolt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7628Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 402B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B0571
- Airframe hours
- 3,633
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Shergalis, William J
- Registered owner
- Shergalis, William J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 29, 1988 · 26 hours before
- Departed
- MYER · Rock Sound, OF
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Ft. Lauderdale Exec, runway 13, 3,999 × 100 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
- 63
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,700 total · 500 in this make and model · 40 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FXE
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 N7628Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.