- Date
- February 18, 1984, 16:01 local (21:01 UTC)
- Place
- Linden, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6252QCessna 401A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840218071369A
- Case key
- 35317
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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
The main landing gear collapsed after landing. A CFI awaiting takeoff said that the approach and touchdown were normal with the gear down. As the acft rolled the left main gear collapsed and the acft gradually left the rwy and became miredin mud. Inspection revealed that the left main gear retraction bellcrank was broken free from its mounting clevis. The attach bolt was fractured near the head. The foward clevis ear was broken. Neither the bolt head nor the fractured portion of the foward clevis ear were recovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6252Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 401A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 401A0052
- Airframe hours
- 5,090
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Aero Industries
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- RIC · Richmond, VA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LDJ · Linden, runway 27, 4,137 × 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,881 total · 164 in this make and model · 1,707 as pilot in command · 224 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EWR, 5 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.