- Date
- May 1, 1984, 20:40 local (May 2, 1984, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- Minneapolis, MN
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3735YBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840501016619A
- Case key
- 12597
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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.
Analysis
The acft touched down hard during the landing. The nose gear collapsed and the acft slid to a stop. The plt said he was not able to arrest the sink rate of the acft with power during the landing flare.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3735Y
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E1767
- Airframe hours
- 1,179
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- G & R Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 14, 1983 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- 06C · Schaumburg, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FCM · Flying Cloud, runway 27L, 3,900 × 75 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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 443 total · 10 in this make and model · 292 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FCM
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 N3735Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.