- Date
- October 26, 1984, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Birmingham, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2773YBeech 95
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841026060759A
- Case key
- 6696
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Hard landing
Airspeed - excessiveFactor
Flare - misjudgedCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Landing gear,tire - burst
Analysis
Plt reported apch was high and fast but when the nose gear touched down during the normal landing, the nose gear tire blew. A witness stated the acft porpoised several times and then impacted on the nose gear resulting in the blown out tire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2773Y
- Reported as
- Beech 95
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TD-142
- Airframe hours
- 4,000
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph F. Johnston
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ROA · Roanoke, VA
- Airport
- BHM · Birmingham, runway 36, 4,856 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 78
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 2,500 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BHM
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.