- Date
- April 5, 1984
- Place
- Gardner, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3950CCessna 402
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840405009159A
- Case key
- 33662
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
On ground/water collision with object
Airport facilities,obstruction marking - inadequateCause
Runway maintenance - inadequateCause
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aborted landing - performed
Go-around - initiated
Wheels up landing - intentional
Analysis
While landing on rwy 26 the left gear struck an open upheaval of dirt & asphalt, collasping the left main gear. A go-around was executed, & the plt landed on runway 35 with the right main gear and nose gear retracted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3950C
- Reported as
- Cessna 402
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 402B0827
- Airframe hours
- 7,829
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- 1
- Registered owner
- Priority Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 30, 1984 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- MKC · Kansas City, MO
- Destination
- K34 · Gardner, KS
- Airport
- K34 · Gardner Muni, runway 35, 3,220 × 110 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,023 total · 125 in this make and model · 2,949 as pilot in command · 194 in the last 90 days · 130 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots, gusting 7
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.