- Date
- April 21, 2000, 15:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Monument Valley, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N305MMBeech A36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000421007119A
- Case key
- 49039
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Probable cause
Failure by the pilot to maintain control of the aircraft during landing roll. Factors were a dust devil/whirlwind and the pilot's lack of landing currency.
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
While on landing roll, a 'whirlwind' was encountered which turned the aircraft 90 degrees collapsing the landing gear, which caused substantial damage to the airframe. The pilot was not current in landings, and the National Weather Service had issued an alert bulletin forecasting turbulence for the area.
Factual narrative
On April 21, 2000, at 1500 mountain daylight time, a Beech A36TC, N305MM, sustained substantial damage when the main landing gear collapsed during landing roll at Monument Valley, Utah. The private pilot and his passenger were not injured. The flight was operating under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. The flight departed Farmington, New Mexico, at 1300.
According to the pilot, during landing roll a wind gust ("whirlwind") was encountered which turned the aircraft 90 degrees and the main landing gear collapsed. Although no weather reporting stations were located in the area where the accident occurred, the National Weather Service had issued an Alert Bulletin, stating that turbulence was forecast for the area.
The pilot provided information that the wings, fuselage, propeller, and the landing gear sustained damage.
According to the FAA inspector who examined the pilot's log after the accident, the pilot was not current in landings in the past 90 days.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N305MM
- Reported as
- Beech A36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-188
- Airframe hours
- 3,200
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-VB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Marshall B. Segal
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 10, 1999 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- FMN · Farmington, NM
- Destination
- 71V
- Airport
- 71V · Monument Valley, runway 16, 4,000 × ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,242 total · 1,971 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
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 N305MM · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.