# Incident 20200908012989I: Beech 1900C, Cheyenne, WY, September 8, 2020

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 8, 2020, 08:00 local time
- Place: Cheyenne, WY
- Airport: Cheyenne Regional/Jerry Olson Fiel
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: TIMA
- Location: 41.1556° N, 104.8105° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CHEYENNE RGNL/JERRY OLSON FLD (CYS), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.1556&lon=-104.8105&mi=10
- Aircraft: N218SL, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N218SL) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 1900C (registry code 1154161, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-1900c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65B (registry code 52115, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6a-65b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 1900C
- Reported engine: P&W CANADA PT6A-65B
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor, private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 2,500 total, 700 in this make and model, 120 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20200908012989I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT TOOK-OFF FROM DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COLORADO (KDEN) AND WAS ENROUTE TO CHEYENNE REGIONAL AIRPORT, WYOMING (KCYS).  THE PILOT STATED THAT WHILE ENROUTE, HE ENCOUNTERED LIGHT TO MODERATE ICING.   HE STARTED HIS DESCENT AND ACTIVATED THE DE-ICE BOOTS ABOUT 30 MILES FROM CHEYENNE IN HOPES OF GETTING RID OF ANY ACCUMULATED ICE.  AFTER SLOWING TO 150 KNOTS AND AT APPROXIMATELY 100FT AGL, HE BEGAN REDUCING POWER TO SLOW FOR LANDING.  WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH, HE ONCE AGAIN ACTIVATED THE DE-ICE BOOTS.  HE NOTICED THE PLANE WAS DESCENDING BELOW A NORMAL GLIDE PATH AND TRIED ADDING POWER TO CORRECT THIS.  THE PLANE DID NOT RECOVER AS HE EXPECTED AND CONTINUED TO SINK TOWARDS THE RUNWAY.  THE RESULT WAS A HARD LANDING, HOWEVER THE PILOT STATED HE DIDN?T THINK THE LANDING WAS THAT HARD.

AFTER SHUTTING DOWN THE ENGINE HE NOTICED THERE WAS STILL ABOUT A 50% COVERING OF ICE ON THE ELEVATOR AND WING SURFACES WITH SOME AREA EXCEEDING A QUARTER INCH OF ICE.  THE PILOT MENTIONED THE STABILONS OF THE AIRCRAFT WERE COMPLETELY COVERED IN ICE.  DURING HIS POST-FLIGHT WALK AROUND INSPECTION HE DID NOT NOTICE ANY DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.

THE AIRCRAFT WAS PARKED IN A HANGAR FOR THE MOST OF THE DAY UNTIL IT WAS TIME FOR THE RETURN FLIGHT BACK TO DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LATER THAT EVENING.  THE PILOT FLEW TO DENVER WITHOUT INCIDENT.  SHORTLY AFTER LANDING, THE MAINTENANCE CREW NOTICED DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT?S LOWER FUSELAGE AND TAIL SECTION.

## Other reports on N218SL (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20160509004549I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20160509004549I), May 9, 2016: Beech BE-1900 (N218SL), Missoula, MT, Minor damage. Shortly after leveling off at FL230 copilot?s windscreen spidered. Pilot declared an emergency and returned to Missoula int?l airport without further incident.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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