- Date
- March 22, 1989, 10:20 local (15:20 UTC)
- Place
- Johnstown, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23605Beech A100
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890322065769A
- Case key
- 36387
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Probable cause
Failure of the down lock plate, which allowed the landing gear to collapse.
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
During a landing roll out, the left main landing gear collapsed. An exam revealed that the landing gear down lock plate was broken, which allowed the main landing gear to collapse into the wheel well.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23605
- Reported as
- Beech A100
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- B-236
- Airframe hours
- 4,614
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-28, 1,628 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Corporate Jet
- Registered owner
- Snavely Forest Products
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 17, 1989 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- AGC · West Mifflin, PA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JST · Johnstown, runway 33, 5,486 × 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,245 total · 388 in this make and model · 4,625 as pilot in command · 74 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Temperature
- 23 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.