- Date
- July 4, 1995, 11:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chitina, AK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8067UBeech 36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19950704022749A
- Case key
- 2679
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Probable cause
An inadvertent stall while on approach. The pilot-in-command's inadequate remedial action was a factor.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot stated that he was landing at or near maximum gross weight. He was established on final approach for a short-field landing at 80 knots airspeed. He stated that at ten feet above ground level, right above the runway threshold, the aircraft slipped sideways, stalled, and impacted the runway with a side load on the landing gear.
Factual narrative
On July 4, 1995, approximately 1100 Alaska daylight time, a Beech 36 airplane, N8067U, sustained substantial damage during a hard landing at McCarthy #2 airstrip, located approximately 75 miles east of Chitina, Alaska. The private pilot and his three passengers were uninjured. The pleasure flight last departed Gulkana, Alaska, approximately 1000, with an intended destination of McCarthy #2. No flight plan was filed for the flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
The pilot stated that he was landing at or near gross weight, and was established on final approach for a short-field landing at 80 knots airspeed. He stated that, at 10 feet above the ground, above the end of the runway, the aircraft slipped sideways, stalled, and impacted the runway with a side load on the landing gear, substantially damaging the left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8067U
- Reported as
- Beech 36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-536
- Airframe hours
- 605
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-VB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Glyn Bindon
- Registered owner
- Trijicon, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1994 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- GLK · Gulkana, AK
- Destination
- 15Z
- Airport
- 15Z · Mccarthy No. 2, runway 1, 3,400 × 90 ft, gravel
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 962 total · 641 in this make and model · 870 as pilot in command · 59 in the last 90 days · 39 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.