- Date
- August 3, 2007, 11:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- Sebring, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N107LSTecnam P92 Echo Super
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 67132
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Probable cause
The failure of the landing gear bolt, which resulted in the collapse of the landing gear.
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
During landing after an instructional flight, the left main landing gear of the Tecnam P92 Echo Super special light sport airplane (S-LSA) collapsed, resulting in substantial damage to the airplane. Examination of the landing gear revealed one of the three bolts used to secure the landing gear strut to the fuselage was sheared. As a result of the accident, the airplane manufacturer issued a mandatory Service Bulletin, which required operators to check the landing gear bolts for damage, deformation and tightness, within the next 10 hours.
Factual narrative
On August 3, 2007, at 1150 eastern daylight time, a Tecnam P92 Echo Super special light sport airplane (S-LSA), N107LS, was substantially damaged during landing at the Sebring Regional Airport (SEF), Sebring, Florida. The certificated flight instructor and certificated commercial pilot were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the local instructional flight conducted under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.
According to both pilots, after landing on runway 18, the student pilot applied the brakes, and the left main landing gear collapsed.
Examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector revealed substantial damage to the left wing, left stabilator, and fuselage. Further inspection of the landing gear revealed that one of the three bolts used to secure the landing gear strut to the fuselage was sheared.
The airplane manufacturer issued a mandatory Service Bulletin, which required operators to check the landing gear bolts for damage, deformation and tightness. The Service Bulletin was issued on August 22, 2007 and required compliance within the next 10 hours.
The winds reported at the closest airport, Okeechobee County Airport (OBE), Okeechobee, Florida, 29 nautical miles to the southeast, at 1125, were from 160 degrees at 4 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N107LS
- Reported as
- Tecnam P92 Echo Super
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 980
- Airframe hours
- 299
- Engine
- Rotax 912S, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lockwood Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 1, 2007
- Departed
- SEF · Sebring, FL
- Destination
- SEF · Sebring, FL
- Airport
- SEF · Sebring Regional Airport, runway 36, 5,234 × 100 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 1, 2007
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 9,039 total · 183 in this make and model · 8,973 as pilot in command · 247 in the last 90 days · 67 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 85
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- OBE, 29 nm away