- Date
- September 24, 1990, 12:24 local (16:24 UTC)
- Place
- St. Thomas
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4440KCessna 402B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900924048929A
- Case key
- 32707
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Probable cause
Separation of the left main landing gear torque tube bracket assembly due to sheared rivets from a previous hard side load landing which was not reported.
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
After touchdown with the gear down & locked while taxiing off the rwy, the lt main landing gear collapsed. According to the director of maint., the left landing gear bracket-assy, gear torque turbe, came loose after the rivets sheared probably due to a hard side load landing which was not reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4440K
- Reported as
- Cessna 402B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B-00861
- Airframe hours
- 17,311
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Four Star Aviation
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 1990 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- SJU · San Juan, PR
- Destination
- STT · St. Thomas
- Airport
- STT · Cyril E. King, runway 10, 5,348 × 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 9,230 total · 600 in this make and model · 5,764 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.