- Date
- May 21, 2009, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Winsted, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3214LBeech B19
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20090521012449A
- Case key
- 73921
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Probable cause
The student pilot's improper flare during the soft-field landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's inadequate supervision during the landing.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
During the third practice soft-field landing of the instructional flight, the student pilot flared the airplane and it entered a "full stall" at 5 to 7 feet above the grass runway. The airplane touched down and the flight instructor pulled back on the yoke in an attempt to recover the landing. The nose landing gear then struck the terrain and separated. Examination of the airplane revealed that the firewall and the top of the left wing were wrinkled. The flight instructor and student pilot were not injured. The flight instructor did not report any mechanical problems with the airplane.
Factual narrative
During the third practice soft field landing of the instructional flight, the student pilot flared the airplane and it entered a "full stall" at 5 to 7 feet above the grass runway. The airplane touched down and the flight instructor pulled back on the yoke in an attempt to recover the landing. The nose landing gear then struck the terrain and separated. Examination of the airplane revealed the firewall and the top of the left wing were wrinkled resulting in substantial damage to the airplane. The flight instructor and student pilot were not injured. The flight instructor did not report any mechanical problems with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3214L
- Reported as
- Beech B19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-829
- Airframe hours
- 16,377
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Great Lakes Aircraft, Inc., doing business as Inflight Pilot Training, LLC
- Registered owner
- Great Lakes Aircraft, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 24, 2009
- Departed
- FLM · Eden Prairie, MN
- Destination
- 10D · Winsted, MN
- Airport
- 10D · Winsted Municipal Airport, runway 27, 3,200 × 200 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 18, 2008
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 6,900 total · 2,500 in this make and model · 6,200 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 85 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 17, 2000
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 110 total · 5 in this make and model · 74 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 10, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 326 KB in all.
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 N3214L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.