- Date
- June 21, 1986, 10:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- Mackinac Island, MI
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18393Beech V35B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860621026859A
- Case key
- 13477
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
Airspeed - excessiveCause
Flare - inadequateCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
Remedial action - delayedCause
Complete gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Landing gear,main gear - overloadFactor
Analysis
After making two go-arounds the aircraft's landing gear collapsed as the aircraft porpoised on the runway during the third landing attempt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18393
- Reported as
- Beech V35B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-10054
- Airframe hours
- 2,300
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Northstar Aviation
- Registered owner
- John L. Clark
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Milwaukee, WI
- Airport
- Y84 · Mackinal Island, runway 26, 3,510 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 21
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 860 total · 510 in this make and model · 700 as pilot in command · 85 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PLN, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.