- Date
- March 21, 2004, 15:05 local (21:05 UTC)
- Place
- Wahoo, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3077HBeech F33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Lincoln, Nebraska-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20040321004749A
- Case key
- 59069
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from the bounced landing resulting in the collapse of the nose landing gear. A factor was the pilot's misjudged landing flare.
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 airplane was damaged during landing when the nose landing gear collapsed. A witness reported seeing the airplane land hard and subsequently bounce several times prior to the collapse of the nose landing gear. No pre-impact anomalies were found.
Factual narrative
On March 21, 2004, about 1505 centrqal standard time, a Beech F33A, N3077H, piloted by a private pilot, was substantially damaged when the nose landing gear collapsed during landing on runway 02 (4,1010 feet by 75 feet, concrete), at the Wahoo Municipal Airport, Wahoo, Nebraska. The 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The pilot was not injured. The local flight originated about 1430.
A witness stated that he saw the airplane make a "very hard landing at the Wahoo airport." The witness further stated that the airplane bounced several times into the air and that the nose landing gear collapsed.
A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed no pre-impact anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3077H
- Reported as
- Beech F33A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CE-1154
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- AHQ · Wahoo, NE
- Destination
- AHQ · Wahoo, NE
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
- 56
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 460 total · 450 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 12 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.56 inHg
- Observed at
- OMA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.