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Event CHI84IA111

1984-02-15 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States Airport · IND None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N175P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 175

Year of manufacture

1958 · 26 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR GO-300 SERIES (175 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580326

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A12D05

Registrant of record

BURDICK RICH

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE PLT WAS ON A LOCAL FLT TO CHECK THE AILERON RIGGING AFTER MAINTENANCE HAD BEEN PERFORMED ON IT. AFTER TAKING OFF, HE REMAINED IN THE TRAFFIC PATTERN. ON DOWNWIND, AFTER EXTENDING THE LANDING GEAR, HE NOTED AN UNSAFE RIGHT MAIN GEAR INDICATION. THE PLT RECYCLED THE GEAR, CHECKED THE CIRCUIT BREAKERS & USED THE EMERGENCY EXTENSION SYSTEM. SUBSEQUENTLY, DURING A LANDING, THE RIGHT GEAR COLLAPSED & THE ACFT SWERVED TO THE RIGHT & RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE. AN EXAM REVEALDED THAT THE SUPPORT BRACKET FOR THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR SUPPORT ASSEMBLY (P/N 50-820107) CONTAINED AN OLD FATIGUE CRACK. AFTER THE BRACKET FAILED, THE GEAR ACTUATOR SEPARATED FROM THE BRACKET. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1984_CHI84IA111.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (maintenance). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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