- Date
- March 2, 1991, 15:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Injuries
- 22 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N385MQShort Brothers SD3-60
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910302005719A
- Case key
- 15018
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Probable cause
An excessive landing flare by the copilot. Factors associated with the accident are the inoperative wing flaps and the captain's inadequate supervison.
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 accident airplane overrotated and struck the runway with aircraft fuselage during a no flap landing. The first officer was flying the approach and when he asked for flap extension both pilots stated they did not extend. The captain elected to continue the approach. The final approach was flown with the captain manipulating the throttles and the first officer on the flight controls. The airlane bounced on touchdown. The captain assumed complete control of the airplane and completed the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N385MQ
- Reported as
- Short Brothers SD3-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- SH3707
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-65AR, 1,220 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Simmons Airlines
- Departed
- AZO · Kalamazoo, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ORD · O'Hare Field, runway 32, 10,003 × 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 5,087 total · 1,903 in this make and model · 502 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 22 knots, gusting 31
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORD, 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.