- Date
- March 19, 2025, 14:31 local (19:31 UTC)
- Place
- Grenada, MS
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4455BBeech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250319002469A
- Case key
- 199906
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of airplane control while landing in gusty wind conditions resulting in a hard landing and collapse of the nose landing gear.
Findings · 4
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
The pilot reported that after touchdown on runway 13, the airplane encountered a wind gust, and the airplane subsequently climbed about 5 ft above ground level (agl). The pilot applied back pressure on the yoke to regain a slight nose-high landing attitude when the airplane landed hard and bounced again to about 3 ft agl. Due to the airplane’s airspeed being below the single-engine best rate of climb airspeed, the pilot did not apply power for a go-around and continued the landing. The airplane landed hard again, the airplane’s nose landing gear collapsed, and the right main landing gear tire blew out. Unable to maintain directional control, the airplane exited the right side of the runway and came to rest upright in the grass. The airplane’s fuselage sustained substantial damage. Prior to landing, the pilot used on-board weather information to determine that the wind was from 200° at 17 knots, gusting to 26 knots. The airport’s runway 22 was listed in poor condition with a remark that the asphalt was cracked and had depressions. The pilot chose runway 13 for the improved surface condition and wider runway, which placed the runway crosswind component between 16 to 24 knots. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4455B
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-2203
- Built
- 1979
- Airframe hours
- 5,424
- Engines
- Continental IO-550, 300 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-550, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 20, 2024 · 216 hours before
- Departed
- KCCO · Newman, GA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GNF · Grenada Muni, runway 13, 7,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display
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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- February 19, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 19,600 total · 236 in this make and model · 13,370 as pilot in command · 62 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 17 knots, gusting 26
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.81 inHg
- Observed at
- KGNF
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 5, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.1 MB 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.