- Date
- December 26, 1989, 17:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Muscle Shoals, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6584RBeech B19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891226066389A
- Case key
- 8189
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Probable cause
The premature flare initiated by the student pilot and the flight instructor's delay in taking remedial action, which led to an inadvertent stall and a hard landing.
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 airplane landed hard during a touch and go landing. The student reported that he flared the airplane 'too soon' and stalled the airplane above the runway. The flight instructor reported that he repeatedly told the student to release elevator back pressure, but the student failed to respond. The instructor then took control of the airplane and attempted to recover from the premature flare. The airplane stalled and dropped to the runway before he could complete the recovery.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6584R
- Reported as
- Beech B19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-730
- Airframe hours
- 2,572
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Daniel R. Montgomery, Sr
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 29, 1989 · 19 hours before
- Airport
- MSL · Muscle Shoals Regional, runway 29, 6,693 × 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
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Right
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.