- Date
- October 9, 1988, 16:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Quincy, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8769RBeech 55B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881009046559A
- Case key
- 14296
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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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain control of the aircraft and to take appropriate action to correct the porpoise.
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
Flare - improperCause
Porpoise/pilot-induced oscillation - not correctedCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8769R
- Reported as
- Beech 55B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC1790
- Airframe hours
- 2,090
- Engine
- Continental IO-470L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Delmarva Engineering Assoc Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 3, 1988 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- BUF · Buffalo, NY
- Destination
- OJC · Kansas City, KS
- Airport
- UIN · Quincy-Baldwin Fld, runway 31, 5,400 × 150 ft, asphalt
N8769RRegistered now · Beech 95-B55 (T42A)Airframe modelBeech 95-B55 (T42A)Engine modelContinental I0-470 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
- 54
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 890 total · 199 in this make and model · 725 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- UIN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.