- Date
- October 11, 1984, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Abbeville, SC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66CMSmith, Ted Aerostar Aerostar 600
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841011055389A
- Case key
- 6685
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Right main tire blew during a hard landing. Plt applied left brake and rudder but acft continued off right side of rwy. Acft skidded across a pile of debris which initiated a flash fire in the underbrush. The right main gear assembly was broken from the acft before it came to a complete stop aprx 1400 ft from the apch end of the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66CM
- Reported as
- Smith, Ted Aerostar Aerostar 600 (AEROSTAR 6)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 600046101
- Airframe hours
- 3,300
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-G1B5, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert L. Graves
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CAE · Columbia, SC
- Destination
- A03 · Abbeville, SC
- Airport
- A03 · Davis Field, runway 26, 2,240 × 40 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,000 total · 200 in this make and model · 5,500 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.