- Date
- September 24, 1982, 10:10 local (15:10 UTC)
- Place
- Sabetha, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2231QCessna 421A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 24, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820924048969A
- Case key
- 72446
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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 stated that the gear indicated down and locked prior to landing and during the first part of the landing roll. After about 1,000 ft of roll the plt got an unsafe indication and the left wing began to settle. After the left gear collapsed the acft swerved to the left off the rwy. The bolt, p/n NAS464P4-26, which attaches the bellcrank, pn 5041001-1, to the strut was sheared and one side of the clevis at the lower end of the bellcrank. Both of these broken components could be associated with overload conditions induced when the gear collapsed and neither showed evidence of previous damage. There was no evidence of a hard landing. The landing gear components appeared to have adequate lubrication. Due to impact damage the rigging of the retraction linkage prior to the accident could not be determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2231Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 421A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421A0031
- Airframe hours
- 3,851
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Public aircraft · Part 91
- Operator
- Guy E. Counselman
- Registered owner
- Guy E. Counselman
- Departed
- C · Topeka, KS
- Destination
- C · Sabetha, KS
- Airport
- K83 · Sabetha Muni, runway 1, 2,500 × 40 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 9,184 total · 185 in this make and model · 71 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.