- Date
- August 5, 1993, 21:00 local (Aug 6, 1993, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ludington, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5072TBeech 19A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report July 25, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930805027739A
- Case key
- 9271
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Probable cause
the pilot's misjudged 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 pilot reported he initiated a flare at approximately 10 feet above the runway. The aircraft made a rapid descent onto the runway and the nose wheel collapsed.
Factual narrative
On August 5, 1993, about 2100 eastern daylight time, a Beech 19A airplane, N5072T, landed hard at Ludington, Michigan. The airplane was substantially damaged. No injury was reported among the private pilot and two passengers. Visual meteorological conditions existed in the vicinity. The local personal flight originated, time unknown, without a flight plan and operated under 14 CFR 91.
The pilot stated that after he initiated a flare approximately 10 feet above the runway, the airplane made a rapid descent onto the runway. The nose wheel collapsed upon impact and the aircraft came to rest approximately 150 feet down the runway.
No mechanical anomalies have been claimed or were discovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5072T
- Reported as
- Beech 19A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-363
- Airframe hours
- 3,469
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2C, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles, J. Hagerman
- Registered owner
- Charles J. Hagerman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 25, 1992 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- LDM
- Airport
- LDM · Mason County, runway 25, 5,000 × 75 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 120 total · 63 in this make and model · 97 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 250° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Observed at
- MBL
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 N5072T · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.