Piper PA28 N3024C
24 June 2016 · Poughkeepsie, New York, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 24 June 2016 at about 15:30 local time, a Piper PA28 registered N3024C was involved in an accident near Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 15:30
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
- Nearest airport
- Dutchess County Airport (POU)
- Coordinates
- 41.6267, -73.8842
- Aircraft
- Piper PA28
- Registration
- N3024C
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1978
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Poughkeepsie → Poughkeepsie
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- ERA16LA234
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Probable cause
An overstress failure of the left main landing gear attachment bolts, which resulted in the left main landing gear collapse.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The flight instructor stated that, while taxiing after landing from the instructional flight, the airplane started to veer to the left, and he heard a "metallic sound." Shortly after, the left main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to a stop. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the left main landing gear strut separated from the wing attachment; the bolts attaching the landing gear to the spar were sheared in the vicinity of the bolt threads. The fracture features of the bolts displayed signatures of overstress failure. It could not be determined whether the overstress fracture of the bolts occurred during the accident flight or during a previous unreported event.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Piper PA28 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Dec 2016 | Piper PA28 | Madisonville, Tennessee, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 23 Dec 2016 | Piper PA28 | Middlebury, Vermont, United States | PC Air Ventures Ltd | Fatal | 1 |
| 27 Mar 2016 | Piper PA28 | West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 16 Oct 2016 | Piper PA28 | Austin, Pennsylvania, United States | St. Catharines Flying Club | Fatal | 3 |
| 22 Dec 2016 | Piper PA28 | Shreveport, Louisiana, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 13 Oct 2016 | Piper PA28 | Jozini, South Africa | - | Unknown | - |
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