Cessna 310N N310DE

Summary

On 31 July 1999 at about 16:00 local time, a Cessna 310N registered N310DE, operated by Bahram Akradi, was involved in an accident near Eden Prairie, Minnesota, 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.

Date

31 July 1999 at 16:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

Nearest airport

Flying Cloud (FCM)

Coordinates

44.8610, -93.4304

Aircraft

Cessna 310N

Registration

N310DE

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Bahram Akradi

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CHI99LA265

Nobody was injured.

maintenance personnel installed washers which were not large enough in diameter to prevent the retraction/extension scissors links from separating from each other.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot reported the flight was uneventful the left main landing gear 'broke' on touchdown. The airplane veered left where it contacted a taxiway information sign and the nose gear collapsed prior to the airplane coming to rest. The left main landing gear strut collapsed rearward damaging the left wing aft spar. Inspection of the left main gear revealed the upper and lower portions of the scissors link detached from each other allowing the lower portion of the strut to rotate within the upper portion of the strut. The bolt, washers, bushings, nut, and cotter pin remained attached to the upper link. There were three washers present near the head of the bolt. All three were painted white and had an outside diameter of 3/4 inch. There were four washer present at the castellated nut end of the bolt. None of these washers were painted and all of them had an outside diameter of 9/16 inch. This is the same outside diameter as the bushing and same inside diameter as the hole on the scissors link.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.