Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P92 ECHO SUPER N323BR

Summary

On 7 March 2010 at about 20:00 local time, a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P92 ECHO SUPER registered N323BR, operated by Flying Tigers Flight School, was involved in an accident near Baytown, Texas, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

7 March 2010 at 20:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

RWJ Airpark (54T)

Coordinates

29.7399, -94.9606

Aircraft

Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P92 ECHO SUPER

Registration

N323BR

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Flying Tigers Flight School

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Ellington Field → Ellington Field

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN10LA207

Nobody was injured.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

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.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.