- Date
- December 31, 1990, 13:35 local (18:35 UTC)
- Place
- Marathon, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N155PBCessna 402C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901231064429I
- Case key
- 32770
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Probable cause
Fatigue failure of a nose landing gear drag brace assembly which caused the nose landing gear to collapse during the landing roll. Contributing to the accident was an inadequate inspection of the airplane approximately 7 hours earlier by company 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
During the landing roll, the nose landing gear collapsed. Exam of the nose landing gear revealed that the nose landing gear drag brace assy failed due to fatigue. The landing gear was inspected aprx 7 hours earlier. The total time & cycles of the failed component is unk.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N155PB
- Reported as
- Cessna 402C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402c0009
- Airframe hours
- 10,956
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520VB, 325 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Airways International Inc.
- Registered owner
- Johan Pat, Ince
- Last inspection
- AAIP · December 29, 1990 · 7 hours before
- Departed
- MIA · Miami, FL
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- MTH · Marathon, runway 7, 5,008 × 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,400 total · 1,400 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MTH
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.