ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 235399
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| Date: | Friday 24 June 2016 |
| Time: | 11:30 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-181 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N3024C |
| MSN: | 28-7990149 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7212 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-360-A4M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Poughkeepsie, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Poughkeepsie, NY (POU) |
| Poughkeepsie, NY (POU) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight instructor stated that, while taxiing after landing from the instructional flight, the airplane started to veer to the left, and he heard a "metallic sound." Shortly after, the left main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to a stop. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the left main landing gear strut separated from the wing attachment; the bolts attaching the landing gear to the spar were sheared in the vicinity of the bolt threads. The fracture features of the bolts displayed signatures of overstress failure. It could not be determined whether the overstress fracture of the bolts occurred during the accident flight or during a previous unreported event.
Probable Cause: An overstress failure of the left main landing gear attachment bolts, which resulted in the left main landing gear collapse.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 22-Apr-2020 17:04 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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