- Date
- March 27, 2010, 08:15 local (12:15 UTC)
- Place
- Naples, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N858PRBeech 58
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 1, 2010
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20100327032489A
- Case key
- 75592
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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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare while landing, resulting in a bounced landing.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
Upon arrival at his destination after an instrument-flight-rules flight, the pilot was cleared for a very-high frequency omnidirectional radio range approach to runway 5. The pilot encountered visual conditions at 400 feet. He flared the airplane high and fast and the airplane touched down hard on the runway and bounced. The airplane touched back down on the runway and began to porpoise. The nosewheel then sheared off and the airplane continued down the runway until it came to a complete stop. Both wings were wrinkled to their wing root and the cabin area was buckled. The pilot stated that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the airplane and that he simply "rounded out" too high and made a hard landing, resulting in the nose landing gear shearing off the airplane.
Factual narrative
The pilot stated he was conducting an instrument flight rules flight from Melbourne, Florida to Naples, Florida. Upon arrival at Naples, the pilot was cleared for a very-high frequency omnidirectional radio range approach to runway 5. The pilot encountered visual conditions at 400 feet. He flared the airplane high and fast and the airplane touched down hard on the runway and bounced. The airplane touched backed down on the runway and began to porpoise. The nose wheel sheared off and the airplane continued down the runway and came to a complete stop. Both wings were wrinkled to their wing root and the cabin area was buckled. The pilot stated there was nothing mechanically wrong with the airplane. He simply rounded out too high, and made a hard landing, resulting in the nose landing gear shearing off the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N858PR
- Reported as
- Beech 58 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-1221
- Airframe hours
- 4,225
- Engines
- Continental IO-520_CB9B, 300 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-520_CB9B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Golpa Gadoda
- Registered owner
- Melbourne Air Partners LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 19, 2009 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- MLB · Melbourne, FL
- Destination
- APF · Naples, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- APF · Naples Municipal Airport, runway 05, 5,290 × 1,612 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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 10, 2010
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 900 total · 300 in this make and model · 800 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- APF
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 27, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 440 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.