- Date
- July 5, 2022, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Livingston, TN · On Airport
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N955VBeech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Defining event
- Landing: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220705011879A
- Case key
- 105471
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, which resulted in a hard 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
The private pilot stated she landed hard and the airplane bounced. During the landing the airplane’s nose landing gear tire blew out and the left propeller struck the ground. The airplane’s left wing was also substantially damaged. The pilot reported there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N955V
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-1912
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 3,076
- Engines
- Continental IO-470L-21B, 260 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-470L-21B, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harrison Danny L
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 26, 2021
- Departed
- BWG · Bowling Green, KY
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 8A3 · Livingston Muni, runway 18, 5,153 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 24, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 392 total · 28 in this make and model · 306 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- 8A3
- METAR
- SA 05/07/2022 15:35-> METAR K8A3 051535Z AUTO 22007KT 10SM FEW029 30/23 A3010
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 24, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 MB 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.