- Date
- November 21, 1990, 16:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Kingston, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N330Lowe/Law Glasair SH-3
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901121051679A
- Case key
- 36747
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Probable cause
A hard landing that collapsed the left main gear due to overload failure of the trunion.
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 pilot was landing on runway 33. A witnesss stated that the pilot 'cleared the trees at the approach end of the runway. At this point, [the airplane] appeared to develop a high sink rate and to drop the last 10-15 feet to the runway, hitting hard short of the displaced threshold. The left main gear collapsed first, followed by the rest of the gear.'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N330
- Reported as
- Lowe/Law Glasair SH-3 (GLASAIR SH)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 3056
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-G1F-5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- William Law
- Registered owner
- Lowe, Roy E. Metzger, C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1990 · 126 hours before
- Departed
- W16 · Winchester, VA
- Destination
- 20N · Kingston, NY
- Airport
- 20N · Kingston/Ulster, runway 33, 3,250 × 20 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 860 total · 119 in this make and model · 737 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- POU
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.