- Date
- September 17, 2011, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N125ABeech B90
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing area undershoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 13, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Adminstration
- FAA report
- 20110917021259A
- Case key
- 81844
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to obtain a proper touchdown point, which resulted in a runway undershoot.
Findings · 1
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
While landing, the airplane touched down short of the runway, the left main landing gear impacted the edge of the runway and collapsed, and the airplane departed the edge of the runway into a culvert. The airplane’s left wing sustained substantial damage.
Factual narrative
While landing, the airplane touched down short of the runway, and the left main landing gear impacted the edge of the runway. Subsequently, the left landing gear collapsed and the airplane departed the edge of the runway into a culvert. Substantial damage was sustained to the airplane's left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N125A
- Reported as
- Beech B90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ-360
- Airframe hours
- 9,254
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo propPratt and Whitney PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Skydiving · Part 91
- Operator
- Brigman Ivan T
- Registered owner
- Brigman Ivan T
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- KINJ · Hillsboro, TX
- Destination
- KINJ · Hillsboro, TX
- Airport
- KINJ · Hillsboro Municipal Airport, runway 16, 3,998 × 60 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
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 1, 2010
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,900 total · 200 in this make and model · 40 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 9 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- KINJ
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 31, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 292 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.