- Date
- August 7, 1987, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Arkansas City, KS
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9467QBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 34430
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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,tire - failure,totalCause
Main gear collapsed
Loss of control - on ground/water
Landing gear,main gear - collapsedFactor
Directional control - not possible
Analysis
During ldg roll, following a personal flight, the acft had a failure of the left main gear tire. The PIC said the acft began violently shaking and wobbling followed by collapse of the left main lndg gear. The acft swerved off the runway and incurred substantial damage during the impact sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9467Q
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-206
- Airframe hours
- 1,854
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C/CB, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jaybird, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 8, 1987 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- MKC · Kansas City, MO
- Airport
- WLD · Strother Field, runway 17, 5,500 × 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,053 total · 451 in this make and model · 947 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F, dew point -0 °F