- Date
- May 4, 1991, 19:05 local (23:05 UTC)
- Place
- Key West, FL
- Injuries
- 8 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N208RCBeech F-90
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910504014089A
- Case key
- 32862
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Probable cause
Overload failure of the nose landing gear resulting in the collapse of the nose landing gear during the landing roll.
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 a reported normal touchdown, the plt applied reverse thrust & stated that the nose landing gear fell lower than normal. He then recycled the landing gear selector handle & the main landing gears collapsed. The acft slid to a stop & all occupants exited safely. Exam of the acft revealed that the upper drag leg of the nose landing gear ass'y failed due to overload. No determination could be made as to the reason for the overload failure.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N208RC
- Reported as
- Beech F-90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LA-46
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-135, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mccarty, Richard D. & Claire
- Registered owner
- Mccarty, Richard D. & Claire
- Departed
- PMP · Pompano Beach, FL
- Airport
- EYW · Key West International, runway 9, 4,800 × 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 500 in this make and model · 21 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EYW, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.