- Date
- August 23, 1984, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Teterboro, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N18ZZPiper PA-601P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840823070409A
- Case key
- 35754
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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.
Main gear collapsed
Judgment - poorCause
Terrain condition - softFactor
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
Acft was cleared to taxi to the rwy. Taxiway was blocked by construction. Plt elected to taxi to runup area to make a 180 deg turn. Plt turned right and right main gear went off pavement onto the soft shoulder and collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18ZZ
- Reported as
- Piper PA-601P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 610-0399-138
- Airframe hours
- 1,152
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-450-S1A5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jaz Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 1, 1984 · 88 hours before
- Destination
- HTO · East Hampton, NY
- Airport
- TEB · Teterboro
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 700 total · 600 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.