- Date
- October 6, 1984, 17:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Cincinnati, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3730SBeech BE-77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841006056529A
- Case key
- 12931
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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 plt reported that during a landing, he flared too high, the acft entered a high rate of descent & touched down hard. He reported that the nose gear became bent, the acft went off the left side of the rwy & struck a culvert.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3730S
- Reported as
- Beech BE-77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA-115
- Airframe hours
- 1,918
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Paul Daniels III
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 3, 1984 · 27 hours before
- Airport
- LUK · Lunken, runway 20R, 3,797 × 100 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 23 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LUK
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.