- Date
- September 20, 1987, 18:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Green Bay, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N146MBeech E55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870920058919A
- Case key
- 13827
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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 intended to land long on rwy 36L since he parked the acft near the north end of the field. He stated that he flew over the rwy at an alt of aprx 30 ft until near the intx with rwy 6/24, then he retarded the throttles & adjusted the trim for landing. At about that time, the acft dropped to the rwy, porpoised twice & the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N146M
- Reported as
- Beech E55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE1112
- Airframe hours
- 1,615
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dutchess Air Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 31, 1986 · 130 hours before
- Departed
- TEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Destination
- GRB
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GRB · Austin Straubel, runway 36L, 8,200 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,194 total · 651 in this make and model · 2,194 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GRB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.