- Date
- April 6, 1987, 21:30 local (Apr 7, 1987, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Springfield, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N26863Fairchild SA-227
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report December 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 34364
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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
On April 6, 1987 a crew operating a metro iii, commuter acft noticed damage on both eng nacelles during a preflt insp. The commuter operator chief pilot was notified and an on site insp was made. The crew originally rptng the damage claimed they were not at fault and had no previous flts that resulted in any hard lndgs. A sampling of pax's were questioned abt lndgs during their flts. The pax's were not able to confirm that any hard lndgs had occurred. Another crew known to have operated the acft on the previous day notified the chf pilot that they had a 'firm' lndg at springfld, ill., but discovered no damage during two separate post flt insp's. flight crews who operated the acdnt acft after the 'firm' lndg which occurred on April 5, claimed to have operated the acdnt acft within normal parameters obsvrng no damage during post flt insp's.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N26863
- Reported as
- Fairchild SA-227
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2713908
- Airframe hours
- 567
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331, 1,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Resort Air,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Resort Air Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PIA · Peoria, IL
- Flight plan
- Unknown
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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported