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when we 8I'Pl"0a'ched' the field,and asked fQr l\nding instructions.. To1I,r'toid me to land on 24,. and I cWled when en the down-wind leg, and Towersaid to call in on the final, A little latflr we put the wheell down andthe engineer' cheeked the tail wheel and pilot aide, and the CQ-pllot cheoked'01') his silie. We turned on the final. approach and put hal! tlaps cblm aswe headed into the wind. Wewere doing about 140 miles per hour and were.making a nice approach, As JOon as we got lined up with the Nlllfll I Ci.l..lJdtor fill flaps. Weslowed dOlt'llto about 120 miles per hour. Just prlviO\1!to this we turnedol1' the l1ghh and the engineer was calling off airlPeed,which wu abOut 120 miles 'per hour, As the ship began to· aettle I notioedthat-r.;;~s goiitg to round it out a little fast sO pulled it back fairlyfast a.t about landing altitude. '!he airspeed ~aa about 90 at this time.It settled' in faster than I expected, as apParently ·the wind had di.ed<lawa little. It dropped in a little harder than nol'lilal. It didn't beunc>--it just took the weight and came up a little, I think the wheels stayed011 th~ runway.. '!hen it seemed to settle down',and I began to tnr the firstprope I ,

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,- Were you swerving back am torth while on the approach?

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No, I lrouldn't say we did, sir. The first contact wasa little on the ,right wlleel - not excessive ~id nothit hard on the right lheel.

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- Where, on the runway, would 10U 1&7 h. first touched?,- I would say he touched down 'at the ver.y end on the,lett hand side. of the l'UIllfay. .

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I ~ 1. FUrtber 11l1•• tigation of thIB accident" ba, been mado, ".,1 alibougJlI ~'"y:~.~~:=;~.;~~~~~;~~.ci:;!~~o:r;:a~.!~~~:;.I a. The subject aircraft had' .pproxilrate1y one hundred (100) tly-!.?ii ing hours when assigned to this station, The numll!r of lanuing5:Sb accwmilatad at that time is unknown. It lIaS flown one hundredI. and eleven (lll) hours while assigned to this station and was

----;t,"i'-----------=-a::.:cc'-re=c!;T;'-ited with twenty five (25) landings,~:ft b. The aircratt, rec.eived three complete landing gear retractionl~ tests lihue at thiB station, It was first checr.ad on the accept-nf<,,(t anee check, a(,rai'l on the one h\1l1drAdand fifty (150) hour inapec-I.l!i' Han; and again on the two, hundred (200) ho1Jl' inspection. The

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,::, 1. Recently on th..ifJ Station. we had three landing gear !allures onA1t'cra!t 142-102518. 4:3-37711 and 44-5q47.

2, It has been deru.tely established that Aircraft. 143-37717 aIX'42-1C'2518made hard;, o~ wheel landings when tha crash OCCUl'6d, Due to the

_tact '.hat A1rcIclt 144-8047 landed during the hoUl'S of darkness. no one can .. ~n .."1il~ly sta,~e what- type of landing was made.

3. On all thre,e lbove mentioned Aircraft, the inboard drag strutsUPPQrt bolts had sheared first and the stresses thus created caased the..f.1l.~. 9f the drag.l.i.nka and outboard drag strut support bo1t8'i

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