ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 308538
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| Date: | Thursday 5 November 2020 |
| Time: | 23:33 LT |
| Type: |  Cirrus SR20 |
| Owner/operator: | Plane Smart! Aviation |
| Registration: | N720TX |
| MSN: | 1564 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2005 |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-360 SER |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Fort Worth, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Dallas-Addison Airport, TX (ADS/KADS) |
| Fort Worth, TX | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Just after touchdown during landing, the airplane's nose landing gear collapsed, which resulted in substantial damage to the engine firewall. Examination revealed that the gear strut separated near the top of the assembly. Video of the landing was not consistent with a hard landing.
The airplane had experienced a hard landing about 2 months before the accident landing, after which it was inspected in accordance with the manufacturer's hard landing checklist. The accident landing was the fourth landing since being returned to service. The nose landing gear strut assembly was not retained and provided for metallurgical examination. It could not be determined if the strut failed due to damage from the previous hard landing or another hard landing before the accident flight.
Probable Cause: A failure of the nose wheel landing strut for reasons that could not be determined based on available information.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN21LA108
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