- Date
- December 11, 1986, 10:34 local (16:34 UTC)
- Place
- Olathe, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N26DLCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861211086009A
- Case key
- 34330
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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.
Gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - fatigueCause
Maintenance,annual inspection - inadequateCause
Procedures/directives - inadequateFactor
Analysis
During landing airplane ballooned due to wind gust. After touchdown. Airplane veered left and duirng pilot's correction, the left main landing gear leg broke off. Metallurgical evaluation revealed a previous fatigue failure in the fracture surface.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N26DL
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32544
- Airframe hours
- 5,503
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- David B. Hayden
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 18, 1986
- Departed
- OJC · Olathe, KS
- Destination
- IXD · Olathe, KS
- Airport
- IXD · Johnson County Industrial, runway 17, 7,339 × 190 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 18,503 total · 122 in this make and model · 18,148 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IXD
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.