- Date
- July 23, 1989, 08:08 local (12:08 UTC)
- Place
- Vero Beach, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7738MMooney M22
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890723028669A
- Case key
- 32468
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Failure of an old weld repair on the nose gear strut housing. A contributing factor was improper maintenance by other (unknown) maintenance personnel.
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
Drg the lndg roll, the acft swerved into a ditch & was damaged. An exam of the nose gear revealed the strut housing had failed at the steering collar, where it was previously welded. An exam of the old weld revealed there had been insufficient weld penetration.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7738M
- Reported as
- Mooney M22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 70005
- Airframe hours
- 2,600
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-541-A1A, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Associated Rack Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 1, 1989 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- 18S · Douglas, GA
- Destination
- VRB
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- VRB · Vero Beach, runway 11, 5,500 × 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,414 total · 1,150 in this make and model · 1,350 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VRB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.