- Date
- October 23, 2014, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mesa, AZ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N130TTRockwell 690B
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 12, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20141023019569A
- Case key
- 90317
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The failure of the nose gear tire, which resulted in the vibration of the nose landing gear and subsequent fire to the tire and forward section of the fuselage structure.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that during the landing roll out a vibration was observed coming from the nose wheel. As the airplane was decelerating to a stop, smoke was noticed coming from the nose gear area. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that during the landing roll out the nose wheel tire had gone flat. This resulted in the vibration of the nose landing gear, and the subsequent fire to the tire and forward section of the fuselage; the fuselage sustained substantial damage as a result of the thermal activity. The examination also revealed no anomalies with any of the nose landing gear components that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing roll out a vibration was observed coming from the nose wheel. As the airplane was decelerating to a stop, smoke was noticed coming from the nose gear area. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that during the landing roll out the nose wheel tire had gone flat. This resulted in the vibration of the nose landing gear, and the subsequent fire to the tire and forward section of the fuselage; the fuselage sustained substantial damage as a result of the thermal activity. The examination also revealed no anomalies with any of the nose landing gear components that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N130TT
- Reported as
- Rockwell 690B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11495
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 2,834
- Engines
- Garrett TPE-331-5, 715 horsepower, turbo propGarrett TPE-331-5, 715 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Precision Aeromedial Transport
- Registered owner
- Sunrise Air Transportation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 18, 2014 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- SOW · Show Low, AZ
- Destination
- IWA · Mesa, AZ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- IWA · Phoenix-Mesa Gateway, runway 30C, 10,201 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Onboard weather, Stall warning system
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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 21, 2014
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 8,718 total · 62 in this make and model · 1,720 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 45 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- IWA, 25 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 19, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.