14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Tuesday, September 04, 2012 in Lewiston, ID
Aircraft: PIPER PA-22-108, registration: N4798Z
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
After departure from an uncontrolled airport, the pilot was advised by personnel at the airport that they saw the left main wheel and tire fall off the airplane. The pilot decided to continue to the accident airport. After flying around to decrease the amount of fuel on the airplane, he landed using runway 30. The airplane pulled to the right until it departed the right side of the runway and tipped onto its nose. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing spar. The pilot reported that he examined the main wheel bearings 2 days prior to the accident for the correct spindle nut tension. He believes that the left wheel spindle nut cotter pin was inadvertently omitted or not installed correctly during the wheel reinstallation on the airplane. He said that a more thorough inspection of the wheel bearing service work should have been performed, and that a more thorough pre-flight inspection could have caught the problem.
LEWISTON, ID (KLEW/FOX) – A plane that touched down in Idaho Tuesday was missing a pretty important part – a tire. The pilot of the single-engine aircraft said he was forced to complete a rather rough landing after the tire was reportedly lost during takeoff.
Duane Reetz, 57, of Clintonville, Wisconsin, successfully navigated his plane to the ground at the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport. Reetz was the only person inside the plane at the time of the incident, and he was not injured.
“You keep flying the airplane. The airplane flies just fine without a wheel on it,” Reetz said. “I just did the best I could to land it as slow as I could and keep that landing gear off the ground as long as possible.” Despite his attempts to balance the plane on the right front wheel and other parts, he wound up doing a nose dive onto the runway. Reetz said air traffic control informed him that a tire had fallen off moments after takeoff.
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 4798Z Make/Model: PA22 Description: Tri-Pacer, Caribbean, Colt
Date: 09/04/2012 Time: 2112
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown
LOCATION
City: LEWISTON State: ID Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT ON LANDING WENT OFF THE RUNWAY AND STRUCK THE PROP, LEWISTON, ID
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Landing Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: SPOKANE, WA (NM13) Entry date: 09/05/2012
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