- Date
- January 2, 1991, 18:00 local (Jan 3, 1991, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chesterfield, MO
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N14DBCessna 340
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910102000079A
- Case key
- 14979
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the landing roll. Factors related to the accident are a foggy windshield, misjudgement of altitude, premature landing flare, and slush on the runway.
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
On final approach for landing, the aircraft windshield fogged up. The pilot stated that he thought he was low crossing the runway threshold so he pulled the aircraft up. When he flared for landing, the aircraft was high and made a hard landing. The aircraft bounced once and slid off the left side of the runway after the second touchdown. The left main landing gear collapsed when the aircraft departed the runway. There was slush on the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N14DB
- Reported as
- Cessna 340
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340-0252
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-N, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gateway Financial Sycs.
- Departed
- RID · Richmond, IN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SUS · Spirit Of St. Louis, runway 8, 7,005 × 150 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,699 total · 108 in this make and model · 4,393 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 10° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SUS, 1 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.
Other investigations on N14DB · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.