ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 288677
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| Date: | Sunday 7 March 2010 |
| Time: | 14:00 LT |
| Type: |  Tecnam P92 Echo Super |
| Owner/operator: | Flying Tigers Flight School |
| Registration: | N323BR |
| MSN: | 986 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2006 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 990 hours |
| Engine model: | Rotax 912ULS |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Baytown, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Houston-Ellington Field, TX (EFD/KEFD) |
| Houston-Ellington Field, TX (EFD/KEFD) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The certificated flight instructor and student pilot planned on performing a full-stop landing on the runway. After making a normal touchdown, and as the airplane slowed down, the right-main gear collapsed. The right wing impacted the runway and the light-sport airplane sustained structural damage.
A postaccident inspection of the airplane revealed that the three bolts attaching the right-main landing gear had failed. The bolts were sent to the Safety Board Materials Laboratory for examination. The examination noted that the two outboard bolts both had crack arrest markings, consistent with fatigue cracking from multiple origins. The third bolt (inboard) had signatures of necking and bending of the grip diameter and fracture characteristics consistent with an overstress separation. Prior to the accident, the airplane manufacturer had issued two service bulletins to address concerns with the proper torque on the landing gear bolts and replacement of the bolts. A review of the accident airplane maintenance records showed that the proper torque inspection service bulletin had been complied with; however, the replacement of the landing gear bolts with stronger bolts (service bulletin) was not applicable to this light-sport airplane.
Probable Cause: The failure of the landing gear bolts.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN10LA207
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 February 2016 | N323BR | Houston LightSport Aviation, LLC | 1 | Arcola-Houston Southwest Airport (KAXH), Houston, Texas | |
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 05-Oct-2022 01:07 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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