- Date
- December 30, 1992, 20:15 local (Dec 31, 1992, 03:15 UTC)
- Place
- Ft Collins, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N21BWBeech 58
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921230051959A
- Case key
- 18268
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Probable cause
Failure by the pilot to follow IFR procedures in not executing a missed approach when he arrived at the runway threshold with improper alignment and improper descent rate for landing. A factor was: marginal weather conditions.
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 conducting an ILS approach in marginal weather conditions, the aircraft crossed the threshold displaced to the left of centerline. The pilot continued the approach and landed hard approximately 3000 feet from the runway threshold on the left edge of the runway. The right main landing gear collapsed and the right propeller contacted the runway. The aircraft departed the left edge of the runway, and collapsed the remaining landing gear. After sliding approximately 1,000 feet, the aircraft reentered the confines of the runway and slid to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21BW
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-36
- Airframe hours
- 3,608
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Northern Colorado Air Charter, doing business as Ncac
- Registered owner
- Northern Colorado Air Charter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 5, 1992 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- AIA · Alliance, NE
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FNL · Ft. Collins/Loveland, runway 33, 8,500 × 100 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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,769 total · 242 in this make and model · 1,692 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 140° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft broken
- Temperature
- 18 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FNL, 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.
Other investigations on N21BW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.