- Date
- September 27, 1991, 14:55 local (18:55 UTC)
- Place
- Cheswold, DE
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2957VBeech 35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910927043559A
- Case key
- 11707
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to arrest an excessive sink rate and crab angle while landing his aircraft.
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 made a hard landing in a 20 degree right crab very near the approach end of runway 27. As the airplane touched down, the right gear broke away. After continuining about 150 feet down the runway, the airplane veered to the right and struck a small drainage ditch about 20 feet to the north of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2957V
- Reported as
- Beech 35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-352
- Airframe hours
- 1,775
- Engine
- Continental E-185-8, 196 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Clinton H. Leeland
- Registered owner
- Clinton H. Leeland
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1991 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- 2W6 · St Mary'S Co, MD
- Airport
- 33N · Delaware Airpark, runway 27, 3,500 × 75 ft, macadam
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,069 total · 209 in this make and model · 1,069 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DOV, 8 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.