- Date
- August 3, 1984, 04:30 local (09:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hutchinson, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N101SBCessna 401
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840803039719A
- Case key
- 33762
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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
While taxiing for takeoff the plt turned from the taxiway onto the rwy & the left main gear collapsed. Post crash examination of the left gear revealed that the ldg gear wing rib support bracket failed allowing the gear to collapse. A Cessna service letter SL-76-2 applies to this problem but was not complied with.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N101SB
- Reported as
- Cessna 401
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 401-0241
- Airframe hours
- 5,400
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Mc Caully Air Service
- Registered owner
- Ems Leasing Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 11, 1984 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- HUT · Hutchinson, KS
- Destination
- DOD · Dodge City, KS
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- Hutchinson
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,427 total · 700 in this make and model · 230 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 190° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ICT, 40 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.
Other investigations on N101SB · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.