- Date
- May 20, 1985, 09:37 local (14:37 UTC)
- Place
- Abilene, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N95BHBeech 58P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850520023209A
- Case key
- 21753
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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
The plt stated he made a normal landing and the gear folded during the rollout. Another plt who was waiting at the end of the rwy for takeoff observed the landing and stated the landing gear was extended too late and was still in transit (not fully down) when touchdown occurred.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95BH
- Reported as
- Beech 58P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TJ-29
- Airframe hours
- 3,260
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-L, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bill Hunter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SWW · Sweetwater, TX
- Destination
- SAT · San Antonio, TX
- Airport
- ABI · Abilene, runway 17R, 7,700 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 1,230 in this make and model · 126 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABI
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.