20130119000309I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech A23 · Crystal River, FL · January 19, 2013

Date: January 19, 2013 · 19:24 local
Place: Crystal River, FL
Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N1475L
Reported as: Beech A23
Reported engine: Continental IO-346 series
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificate: Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours: 243 total12 in this make and model15 in the last 90 days

N1475LRegistered now · Beech A23S/N M-871 · Built 1965 Airframe modelBeech A23 Engine modelContinental IO-346 seriesReciprocating

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

The pilot was attempting his first landing without another pilot in the aircraft familiar with this model. He had just purchased the aircraft on the morning of the incident. This was also his first night landing in this type aircraft. Upon his landing at the Crystal River airport the aircraft landed hard and bounced for quite a distance coming down hard on the nose landing gear and striking one prop blade. The aircraft then skidded off the runway across the grass and on to the taxi way which was a considerable distance to travel.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT WAS ATTEMPTING HIS FIRST LANDING WITHOUT ANOTHER PILOT IN THE AIRCRAFT FAMILIAR WITH THIS MODEL. HE HAD JUST PURCHASED THE AIRCRAFT ON THE MORNING OF THE INCIDENT. THIS WAS ALSO HIS FIRST NIGHT LANDING IN THIS TYPE AIRCRAFT. UPON HIS LANDING AT THE CRYSTAL RIVER AIRPORT THE AIRCRAFT LANDED HARD AND BOUNCED FOR QUITE A DISTANCE COMING DOWN HARD ON THE NOSE LANDING GEAR AND STRIKING ONE PROP BLADE. THE AIRCRAFT THEN SKIDDED OFF THE RUNWAY ACROSS THE GRASS AND ON TO THE TAXI WAY WHICH WAS A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE TO TRAVEL.