- Date
- August 26, 1983, 19:00 local (Aug 27, 1983, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rocky Ford, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7972LBeech 23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830826044899A
- Case key
- 16144
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
Flare - misjudgedCause
Analysis
The acft landed hard & bounced. The impact wrinkled the right wing at the fuel cell position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7972L
- Reported as
- Beech 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MD-152
- Airframe hours
- 3,817
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2C, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry Kenneth Miller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1983 · 382 hours before
- Airport
- 2V8 · Melon, runway 8, 3,800 × 80 ft, asphalt
N7972LRegistration cancelled Nov 19, 2014 · Beech A23-19Airframe modelBeech A23-19Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 128 total · 128 in this make and model · 90 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.