- Date
- July 2, 1983, 08:50 local (13:50 UTC)
- Place
- Gulfport, MS
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6754TBeech C23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830702028179A
- Case key
- 6107
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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 acft made a hard landing, collapsing the nose gear after which a fire started. The pilot had approached the arpt toohigh. The tower recognized this and asked the pilot if he needed to make a 360 degree turn. The pilot did a 360 but was still too high so he did a 'forward slip' at 70 mph with full flaps to within 100 ft of the rwy. Just prior to touchdownthe acft airspeed was less than 63 KTS. The acft bounced twice before collapsing the nose gear. At one point the pilot considered a go-around but never initiated it.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6754T
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M2274
- Airframe hours
- 1,475
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Baton Rouge Aircraft, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 18, 1983 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- BTR · Baton Rouge, LA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- GPT · Gulfport/Biloxi, runway 13, 9,002 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 72 total · 15 in this make and model · 23 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GPT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.