- Date
- January 2, 1989, 13:16 local (20:16 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Fe, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9739LBeech 19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 22, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890102000139A
- Case key
- 17656
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a hard landing.
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 flying her first supervised solo. She landed on runway 20 with a wind from 240 degrees at 9 KTS. Witnesses said she flared high & the aircraft bounced during touchdown. On the third bounce, the nose gear collapsed, then the acft skidded to a stop on its nosed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9739L
- Reported as
- Beech 19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-525
- Airframe hours
- 1,406
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2C, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harry & Darlene Bush
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 24, 1988 · 104 hours before
- Departed
- SAF
- Destination
- SAF
- Airport
- SAF · Santa Fe County Muni, runway 20, 8,323 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 16 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAF, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.