- Date
- May 4, 1990, 14:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hahira, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6060NBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900504013989A
- Case key
- 8237
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Probable cause
The failure of the right main landing gear tire on landing the failure of the pilot to detect an existing cut on the right main landing gear tire during preflight.
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 pilot configured the aircraft for a short field landing to a turf runway. The touch down was at 70 knots. The aircraft touched down in soft sand and immediately veered to the right and began a slide that resulted in collapse of the landing gear. The pilot reported that ground scars indicate that the veer to the right coincided with rim marks in the sand. Examination of the right main tire disclosed that a cut existed prior to the accident. The cut is in the area of the tire side wall which failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6060N
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E2153
- Airframe hours
- 1,487
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fellowship Homes
- Registered owner
- Fellowship Homes Of S Carolina
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 2, 1989 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- NONE · Valdosta, GA
- Airport
- NONE · Shilo, runway 17, 3,000 × 40 ft, grass/turf
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,070 total · 2,500 in this make and model · 14,070 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VLD, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6060N · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.