- Date
- February 15, 1988, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Roanoke, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6634RBeech C-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11394
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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.
Analysis
This was the stu plt fifth training session where he did solo touch & go landings. During this session he made ten landings without incident. Six landings were made with his instr aboard followed by four solo landings. According to the stu during the flare for the eleventh landing the acft started to porpoise uncontrollably. The acft landed on the nose gear which collapsed and the acft slid off the runway and an engine fire erupted. The carburetor was fractured during the impact sequence. The plt safely exited the acft and the fire was extinquished shortly afterward by airport fire dept personnel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6634R
- Reported as
- Beech C-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M2203
- Airframe hours
- 2,395
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Piedmont Aviation
- Registered owner
- Piedmont Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 20, 1988 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- ROA · Roanoke, VA
- Destination
- ROA
- Airport
- ROA · Roanoke Regional, runway 33, 5,800 × 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
- Age
- 32
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 31 in this make and model · 6 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ROA