- Date
- September 10, 1984, 20:50 local (Sep 11, 1984, 01:50 UTC)
- Place
- Altus, OK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N20148Beech 95-B55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840910075569A
- Case key
- 21460
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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.
Analysis
According to the plt, with full flaps extended the acft encountered a windshear during the flare causing an excessive rate of descent on touchdown. Rwy contact collapsed the left main landing gear allowing the left wing to scrape on the rwy. Shortly before landing Altus air force base advised the plt of winds from the sw at 19 KTS gusting to 29.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20148
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-2159
- Airframe hours
- 1,449
- Engine
- Continental IO-470L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John H. Migliaccio
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 20, 1984
- Departed
- LAW · Lawton, OK
- Destination
- AXS
- Airport
- AXS · Altus Municipal, runway 17, 5,000 × 50 ft, concrete
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,251 total · 798 in this make and model · 1,115 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 19 knots, gusting 29
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 99 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.