- Date
- August 4, 1982, 21:45 local (Aug 5, 1982, 02:45 UTC)
- Place
- Le Suer, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9309SBeech B19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report August 4, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 71396
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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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.
Hard landing
Level off - misjudgedCause
Flare - misjudgedCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
The aircraft landed short of the runway collapsing the nose gear and damaging the propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9309S
- Reported as
- Beech B19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB766
- Airframe hours
- 3,872
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Beech Aero Center
- Registered owner
- Beech Aero Center
- Departed
- Minneapolis, MN
- Destination
- Le Suer, MN
- Airport
- 124 · Lesuer Municipal, runway 13, 3,000 × 0 ft, macadam
N9309SRegistration cancelled Jul 28, 2009 · Beech B19Airframe modelBeech B19Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 113 total · 34 in this make and model · 28 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 185 °F