- Date
- June 9, 1990, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Champaign, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N54RFBeech T-34A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900609019929A
- Case key
- 14688
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions, and his failure to adequately flare the aircraft for landing. The adverse wind was a related factor.
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 pilot with one passenger aboard attempted a landing on a turf runway. On an approach to land on runway 36, the aircraft was configured for a short field landing. Winds were reported to be from 315 degrees at 15 gusting 20 knots. The aircraft landed hard, and the nose gear and right main landing gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54RF
- Reported as
- Beech T-34A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- G-140
- Airframe hours
- 3,616
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BB-11B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Frasca, Rudolf A.
- Registered owner
- Frasca, Rudolph A
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 22, 1989 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- NONE · Atwood, IL
- Destination
- NONE · Champaign, IL
- Airport
- NONE · Andrews Rla, runway 36, 2,200 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 59
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 1,040 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 315° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- CMI, 10 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.