Company maintenance personnel’s failure to comply with the airplane manufacturer’s service instructions by not removing the cracked drag brace from service nor inspecting the repaired drag brace at the appropriate interval, which resulted in the failure of the nose landing gear drag brace due to fatigue cracking and collapse of the nose landing gear during the landing roll. Contributing to the failure of the nose landing gear drag brace was the failure of the repair station to detect a remaining portion of a crack following repair.
N769EA
1980 CESSNA 402C
Fixed wing multi engine · Reciprocating · Standard
2 NTSB records
for this tail number. See the full record below.
Registration
Airframe
Powerplant
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NTSB Accident & Incident Record
Aug 31, 2012
Incident
Minor Nantucket, MA
InjuriesNone
Phase of Flight-
ConditionsVMC
OperationFAR 135
Probable Cause
NTSB ERA12IA550
Apr 27, 2009
Incident
Minor Nantucket, MA
InjuriesNone
Phase of Flight-
ConditionsVMC
OperationFAR 135
Probable Cause
Installation of an improper bearing in the landing gear actuator.
NTSB ERA09IA267