- Date
- August 5, 1982, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Billings, MT
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N895KBeech 90
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 5, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 69952
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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.
Hard landing
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear attachment - overload
Analysis
The plt misjudged altitude & airspeed resulting in a hard landng. The right main gear assembly broke through the upper surface of the wing. The rwy is about 3-6 inches higher than the preceding terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N895K
- Reported as
- Beech 90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ25
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-6, 500 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Midwest Corporate Aviation
- Registered owner
- Hardin Autry Enterprises, Inc.
- Departed
- YYC · Calgary
- Destination
- North Las Vegas, NV
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- BIL · Billings Logan, runway 22, 5,704 × 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, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 1,280 in this make and model · 3,500 as pilot in command · 84 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Temperature
- 163 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BIL
Other investigations on N895K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.