- Date
- November 23, 1987, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- No. Canaan, CT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N14164Waco ZKC-5
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36063
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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 aircraft touched down in a 3-point landing attitude at north Canaan, Connecticut. The left landing gear wheel rotated 90 degrees and the left gear was dragged 144 yards before the aircraft became inverted. It was revealed that the braze joint at the top of the inner tube failed causing the strut to extend past the full extension stop allowing the wheel to rotate. The only part holding the wheel assembly to the strut at this point was the flexible brake line.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N14164
- Reported as
- Waco ZKC-5
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4236
- Airframe hours
- 7,080
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755A-2, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- L.R. Smith, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1987 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- Caanan, CT
- Airport
- CT24 · No. Canaan, runway 21, 3,100 × 75 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 500 total · 500 in this make and model · 500 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None