- Date
- April 20, 1987, 20:00 local (Apr 21, 1987, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Manchester, NH
- Injuries
- 16 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N232RPDornier DO-228-201
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870420012839A
- Case key
- 30634
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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
Vibration was experienced shortly after touchdown caused by the failure of the propeller blade as a result of fatigue cracking which was initiated from a linear area in a defect free portion of the camber face of the blade. Propagation was through 60% of the blade cross section before final failure. The prop blade had separated 23 inches from the tip and deflected off the rwy away from the fuselage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N232RP
- Reported as
- Dornier DO-228-201
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8026
- Airframe hours
- 5,345
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331, 715 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Precision Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 8, 1987 · 67 hours before
- Departed
- EWR · Newark, NJ
- Destination
- MHT · Manchester, NH
- Airport
- MHT · Grenier Field, runway 35, 7,001 × 150 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
- 26
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,161 total · 920 in this make and model · 1,851 as pilot in command · 240 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 54 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.