- Date
- May 19, 1994, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Faribault, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4016TBeech B23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 12, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940519011779A
- Case key
- 9533
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Probable cause
a hard landing as a result of the flight instructor's delayed remedial action. A factor associated with the accident is the student pilot's improper flair.
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 practicing full-stop landings on a dual instructional flight. The flight instructor stated the student dropped the nose after the flare and landed hard. The instructor took control of the airplane when it bounced into the air, executed a go-around, and landed the airplane. When the airplane came to a stop it was discovered that the right main landing gear had been torn off.
Factual narrative
On May 19, 1994, about 1630 central daylight time, a Beech B23, N4016T, sustained substantial damage in a hard landing at the Faribault Municipal Airport, Faribault, Minnesota. The flight was a dual instructional flight which originated at Faribault. The flight instructor and the student pilot were not injured. No flight plan was filed, and visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time.
The instructor stated the student was attempting his third full- stop landing. He said the student landed hard and the airplane bounced back into the air. The flight instructor took control of the airplane, executed a go-around, and landed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4016T
- Reported as
- Beech B23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1123
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Northern Aircraft Sales, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Provisional (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 30, 1994
- Airport
- FBL · Faribault Municipal Arpt, runway 12, 4,254 × 72 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,950 total · 300 in this make and model · 1,651 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FBL
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 N4016T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.