- Date
- October 6, 1989, 16:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N40340Maule M-4-220C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891006042479A
- Case key
- 32588
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Probable cause
Failure of the left main landing gear.
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 landed on rwy 7 with a wind from 110 deg at 8 KTS. He stated that after touchdown, he sensed the left side of the acft was lower than it should be. As he applied brakes, the left brake was ineffective. Subsequently, the left main gear collapsed & the acft came to rest in the middle of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N40340
- Reported as
- Maule M-4-220C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2115C
- Engine
- Franklin 6A-350-C1, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- 40X · Orlando, FL
- Destination
- ORL
- Airport
- ORL · Orlando Executive, runway 7, 4,638 × 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
- 74
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,303 total · 771 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- ORL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.