- Date
- January 28, 1990, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Greer, SC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N66336Beech C24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900128001189A
- Case key
- 8204
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's improper flare which resulted in 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
After returning to home base following a cross country flight the nose landing gear would not extend. Normal & emergency procedures were attempted to lower the gear without success. The airplane was then landed with main gear extended & the nose gear partially extended. The FAA inspector who examined the airplane stated that the landing was extremely hard, which destroyed the gear, & the original malfunction could not be determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66336
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-684
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Benmar, Inc
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- AVL · Ashville, NC
- Airport
- GSP · Greenville-Spartanburg, runway 21, 7,600 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 586 total · 54 in this make and model · 497 as pilot in command · 178 in the last 90 days · 72 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- GSP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.