- Date
- November 4, 1992, 07:10 local (12:10 UTC)
- Place
- Titusville, FL
- Injuries
- 22 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N101FGFairchild F-27
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921104047229I
- Case key
- 33180
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Probable cause
The failure of contract maintenance personnel to comply with written maintenance instructions, resulting in the failure of the nose gear on 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
The crew reported that the nose gear failed on landing roll and retracted. Examination of the nose gear assembly revealed that the chamfered bushes attaching the cable lug to the nose gear pulley were installed 90 degrees from the correct position, exerting uneven loads on the cable where it failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N101FG
- Reported as
- Fairchild F-27
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16
- Engine
- Rolls-Royce DART 514-7, 1,670 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- University Athletic Assoc.
- Registered owner
- University Athletic Assoc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- AAIP · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- GNV · Gainesville, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- TIX · Space Center Executive, runway 18, 6,001 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18,000 total · 2,206 in this make and model · 11,686 as pilot in command · 109 in the last 90 days · 54 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIX, 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.