ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 298194
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| Date: | Tuesday 25 December 2001 |
| Time: | 10:16 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32-300 |
| Owner/operator: | Cherokee LLC |
| Registration: | N666DE |
| MSN: | 32-7540161 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2788 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-540 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Olathe, Kansas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Olathe-Johnson County Executive Airport, KS (OJC/KOJC) |
| Olathe-Johnson County Executive Airport, KS (OJC/KOJC) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airplane was damaged when it went off of the left side of the runway, crossed a parallel taxiway and went down an embankment during landing. The pilot stated that when he applied the brakes during the landing, "...it felt like the left brake 'grabbed' and jerked me to the left. While still on the runway I applied power and right rudder to try to straighten me out. I immediately [went] left very quickly on to the grass." Subsequent to the accident, the nose landing gear fork was found fractured in two places near the attachment to the strut portion of the landing gear. No other anomalies were found with respect to the airplane, or its systems that were determined to have existed prior to impact. The nose landing gear fork was examined by the National Transportation Safety Board's Materials Laboratory. The fork was found to have deformation consistent with excessive lateral loading. The fracture surfaces were examined and both fractures exhibited signatures consistent with overstress. No evidence of fatigue or preexisting damage was found.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing resulting in the overload of the nose gear fork. The overload failure of the nose landing gear fork, the embankment, and the remedial action not possible were contributing factors.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CHI02LA056
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 November 2005 | N666DE | Private | 2 | Mims, FL | |
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 15-Oct-2022 15:07 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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