- Date
- July 31, 1991, 16:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Mesquite, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1927LBeech BE-19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910731030799A
- Case key
- 23377
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the student. Factors were the dual student's misjudgement of altitude and premature flare of the airplane.
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 a fourth practice approach, the student pilot failed to align the airplane with the center line and flared too high. The instructor pilot attempted to take control; however, he waited too late to do so. The airplane impacted hard and went out of control running off the runway into a cultivated field. The main and nose landing gear collapsed in the soft earth.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1927L
- Reported as
- Beech BE-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-796
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ari Ben Aviator
- Departed
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Airport
- HQZ · Mesquite, runway 35, 5,000 × 75 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 653 total · 16 in this make and model · 498 as pilot in command · 143 in the last 90 days · 49 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.