- Date
- June 15, 1993, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Janesville, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24674Beech B19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930615022909A
- Case key
- 9221
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper landing flare.
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 student pilot was attempting his first solo touch and go landing. The airplane landed hard, bounced, exited the left side of the runway, and struck visual approach slope indicator lights. The pilot claims no preaccident mechanical difficulties with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On June 15, 1993, about 0930 central daylight time, a Beechcraft B19 airplane, N24674, sustained substantial damage while landing at Janesville Airport, Janesville, Wisconsin. The solo student pilot was not injured. The local instructional flight operated under 14 CFR Part 91 without flight plan in visual meteorological conditions.
The student pilot was attempting his first solo touch and go landing on runway 31. The airplane landed hard, bounced, exited the left side of the runway and struck visual approach slope indicator lights.
The student pilot claimed no preaccident mechanical difficulties with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24674
- Reported as
- Beech B19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB571
- Airframe hours
- 3,552
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Roessel Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Roessel Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Limited (Special); Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 5, 1993 · 33 hours before
- Airport
- JVL · Rock County, runway 31, 5,396 × 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 2 in this make and model · 5 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,300 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JVL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.