- Date
- May 6, 1989, 14:40 local (18:40 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Myers, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5769MCessna 310P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890506056879A
- Case key
- 32432
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Probable cause
Collapse of the left main landing gear due to overload failure of the trunnion and bellcrank assembly.
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
During the landing roll, the left main landing gear collapsed. The acft veered off the rwy & came to rest on the grass. Examination of the failed landing gear revealed the trunnion & bellcrank assy failed due to overload.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5769M
- Reported as
- Cessna 310P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310P0069
- Airframe hours
- 3,258
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-V, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Breza, Thomas S.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1989 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- FMY · Page Field, runway 23, 6,401 × 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
- 64
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,711 total · 400 in this make and model · 9,000 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.