Cessna 195A N9895A
6 September 2019 · Pocahontas, Iowa, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 6 September 2019 at about 17:30 local time, a Cessna 195A registered N9895A was involved in an accident near Pocahontas, Iowa, 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 17:30
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Pocahontas, Iowa, United States
- Nearest airport
- Pocahontas Municipal Airport (POH)
- Coordinates
- 42.7428, -94.6472
- Aircraft
- Cessna 195A
- Registration
- N9895A
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1950
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Personal
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Bismark → Pocahontas
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- CEN19LA322
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Probable cause
Overload failure of the left main landing gear during landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The airline transport pilot reported that, upon landing, he immediately felt a shift to the left. The left main landing gear fractured and collapsed, and the airplane went off the runway. Postaccident metallurgical examination of the landing gear revealed that the fracture occurred from a thumbnail-shaped fatigue crack in the gear spring strut with multiple origins near the inboard attachment location at the forward edge of its upper surface. Final overstress fracture propagation direction was consistent with a downward-and-aft bending failure mode; thus, the fracture was more likely due to overload rather than the fatigue crack. This was consistent with drag loading of the left main landing gear wheel in combination with side-loading of the outboard side of the left main landing gear wheel, such as that encountered during a crosswind landing, ground loop, and/or hard left turn event. The loads experienced by the landing gear during the accident landing could not be determined, and a structural analysis was not performed to determine if the loads exceeded design load limitations.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Cessna 195 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2019 | Cessna 195 | Socorro, New Mexico, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 29 Mar 2019 | Cessna 195 | Ormond Beach, Florida, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 11 Nov 2019 | Cessna 195 | Kalispell, Montana, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 21 Jul 2018 | Cessna 195 | Hood River, Oregon, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 4 Oct 2021 | Cessna 195 | Watkins, Colorado, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 17 Jul 2017 | Cessna 195 | Leavenworth, Kansas, United States | - | No injuries | - |
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