- Date
- February 12, 1988, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Philadelphia, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N339MAMitsubishi MU-2B-35
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880212002659A
- Case key
- 36099
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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 mitsubishi MU-2B-35 landed and damage was observed on the underside of the left wing midway between the engine and tip tank and outboard to the tip tank. Further examination of the wing showed a broken lower front wing spar and a bent rear lower wing spar. The pilot said he encountered turbulence while cruising at 250 KTS. He said he slowed to 170 KTS and then resumed speed to 250 KTS. After mitsubishi examined the wing, they said the damage was caused by either a hard landing or landing with excess fuel in the tip tank. They also said it was likely that the aircraft had been flown several times with the wing damage present.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N339MA
- Reported as
- Mitsubishi MU-2B-35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 607
- Airframe hours
- 3,578
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-6-251, 724 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Epps Air
- Registered owner
- Epps Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · December 21, 1987 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- UCA · Utica, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PHL · Philadelphia, runway 27R, 9,500 × 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,862 total · 113 in this make and model · 1,146 as pilot in command · 114 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.