ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 286746
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| Date: | Thursday 30 July 2009 |
| Time: | 14:30 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft 76 |
| Owner/operator: | Air Safety Flight Academy |
| Registration: | N83ER |
| MSN: | ME-201 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 13089 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-360 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Glendale, Arizona -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Glendale Municipal Airport, AZ (KGEU) |
| Glendale Municipal Airport, AZ (KGEU) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight instructor reported that the landing gear warning horn went off while taxiing to the ramp at the conclusion of the instructional flight. After checking that the landing gear handle was down and bringing the airplane to a complete stop, the left main landing gear collapsed, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing. A subsequent examination of the left main landing gear system revealed that the side frame assembly was the latest enhanced version and had failed as a result of fatigue, consistent with the stresses developed from the bending moments applied to the down tube during the normal extension and retraction of the main landing gear, as well as during takeoff, landing, and taxiing. A search of the relevant data bases disclosed no other reports of similar failures in the new enhanced version of the part.
Probable Cause: The fatigue failure of the left main landing gear enhanced side brace assembly.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB WPR09LA383
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 03-Oct-2022 15:26 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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