ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 198647
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| Date: | Thursday 23 April 2015 |
| Time: | 12:40 |
| Type: |  Cessna A185E |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N4554F |
| MSN: | 185-1057 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4400 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO520D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Nome, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Nome, AK (94Z) |
| White Mountain, AK (WMO) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The commercial pilot was conducting a personal cross-country flight in the wheel/ski-equipped airplane. The pilot reported that, just as the airplane became airborne, he heard a “loud bang” and that he then noticed that the left wheel/ski assembly had rotated up and near the left window. The pilot then chose to return to the departure runway for an emergency landing, and he crabbed the airplane into the wind to hold the wheel/ski assembly close to the airplane during the return flight back to the airport. During touchdown, as the airplane settled onto the runway, the left main landing gear leg contacted the ground and collapsed, and the left wing struck the ground.
A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the left main landing gear leg assembly fractured near the axle through bolts. The fractured gear leg and maintenance records were not made available for examination; therefore, the reason for the failure of the left main landing gear leg could not be determined.
Probable Cause: The failure of the left main landing gear leg for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 19-Aug-2017 13:47 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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