- Date
- July 3, 1990, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mc Kinney, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18989Beech B19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900703023229A
- Case key
- 23151
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Probable cause
Inadequate supervision by the PIC, the instructor pilot, when he allowed the student pilot to flare at too high an altitude off the runway.
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
After 45 minutes of practice in the air, ip and student entered on downwind to practice pattern emergencies. Ip simulated engine failure and student made full stop landing on runway. After next takeoff, at 200 feet AGL, ip simulated engine failure and student setup to land on remaining runway. Student started flare and airplane stalled too high off runway. Hard impact on main gear broke off both main gears. Airplane bounced several feet and came down on stubs of gear legs and nose gear. After sliding down runway, airplane swerved off the side of the runway, and ended up 100 to 150 feet off side of runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18989
- Reported as
- Beech B19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-870
- Airframe hours
- 5,179
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ari Ben Aviator, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 20, 1990 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- TK1
- Airport
- TKL · Municipal, runway 17, 5,197 × 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
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 930 total · 367 in this make and model · 821 as pilot in command · 194 in the last 90 days · 77 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 135° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F
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 N18989 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.