- Date
- May 16, 1992, 12:01 local (16:01 UTC)
- Place
- Saginaw, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6167ZBeech C23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920516018329A
- Case key
- 15445
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Probable cause
The first pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing. A factor in the accident was the first pilot's lack of experience in the aircraft type.
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
An airline transport pilot executed a practice instrument approach to a touch-and-go landing. The airplane bounced on landing and commenced a porpoise. The ATP relinquished control to the owner in the right seat. The owner applied full throttle to abort the landing. The airplane continued to another touchdown, nose first, collapsing the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6167Z
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-2349
- Airframe hours
- 3,414
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Leinberger, Steven A.
- Registered owner
- Leinberger, Steven A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 26, 1992 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- 3BS · Midland, MI
- Destination
- 3BS
- Airport
- MBS · Tri City Internatl, runway 23, 8,002 × 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
- 29
- Certificates
- Commercial, Military, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,866 total · 3 in this make and model · 1,557 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MBS, 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.