- Date
- April 20, 1984, 12:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Bedford, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1827ZBeech C-24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6441
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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 straight-in approach was high over the trees on the approach end of the rwy. The plt waited until he was 1/2 way down the 3000 ft rwy to reduce eng power to idle. The acft floated before dropping to the rwy & bouncing back into the air. Power was applied & an attempt was made to abort the landing. However, the acft bounced again & plt cut the power when he decided that the acft would not clear the trees beyond the end of the rwy. He managed to steer the acft down a fire break but the right wing hit a tree & the nose landing gear collapsed. The acft traveled 510 ft past the end of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1827Z
- Reported as
- Beech C-24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-762
- Airframe hours
- 1,004
- Engine
- Lycoming I0-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Piedmont Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 16, 1984 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- ROA · Roanoke, VA
- Airport
- Smith Mountain Lake, runway 5, 3,000 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 230 total · 13 in this make and model · 170 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ROA, 23 nm away