- Date
- September 2, 1990, 11:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N23848Beech BE19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900902037769A
- Case key
- 23178
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot's failure to maintain crew coordination in the cockpit, and the student pilot's premature retraction of the flaps during a critical maneuver. Factors were the certified flight instructors inadequate supervision and the inadvertent low altitude stall.
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
During an instructional flight at 20 feet above the runway the instructor pilot was demonstrating minimum airspeed flight. During the recovery phase the student pilot retracted the flaps without instruction from the instructor pilot or without providing him with advanced warning. The actions of the student pilot resulted in the instructor pilot losing control and impacting the ground resulting in substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23848
- Reported as
- Beech BE19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB877
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bledsoe, David C.
- Departed
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Airport
- F69 · Dallas Air Park
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 528 total · 96 in this make and model · 380 as pilot in command · 218 in the last 90 days · 123 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 13 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- ADS
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 N23848 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.