# NTSB LAX06CA295: Beech A36, N9067E, Chandler, AZ, September 18, 2006 - Type: NTSB accident investigation - Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report - Date: September 18, 2006, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC) - Place: Chandler, AZ - Coordinates: 33.269165, -111.811111 - Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.2692&lon=-111.8111&mi=10 - Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping) - Highest injury: No injuries - Injuries: 2 uninjured - Status: Completed, report December 28, 2006 - Report: Approved by Office Director - Parties: Federal Aviation Administration - NTSB case key (mKey): 64576 - NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=LAX06CA295 - NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/64576/pdf - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX06CA295 ## Probable cause the student's failure to establish a stabilized approach, which resulted in a bounced landing and a loss of directional control. Also causal was the flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight, delayed remedial action, and failure to verbally announce the exchange of airplane control during the attempted recovery. ## Sequence of events In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). - Loss of control - on ground/water, landing - flare/touchdown - not corrected, dual student (cause) - go-around - not performed, dual student (cause) - supervision - inadequate, pilot in command(cfi) (cause) - communications - inadequate, pilot in command(cfi) (cause) - relinquishing of control - not coordinated/diseminated, pilot in command(cfi) (cause) - recovery from bounced landing - improper, flightcrew (cause) - directional control - not maintained, flightcrew (cause) - On ground/water collision with object, landing - roll - object - aircraft parked/standing ## Analysis The airplane veered off the runway and impacted a parked and unoccupied airplane on the ramp. The student pilot overshot the final approach course turn and was undershooting the runway with an excessive airspeed, and did not fully flare during the application of corrective control inputs, which ultimately resulted in a bounced landing. After bouncing, the airplane veered off the right side of the runway. The flight instructor attempted to regain control of the airplane, but failed to verbally announce an exchange of aircraft control from the student. The student added power, but the instructor pulled the power to idle and attempted to establish aircraft control. The airplane impacted a parked, unoccupied airplane on the airport ramp and came to rest. The instructor reported that calm winds existed at the time of the accident and that there were no anomalies with the aircraft. ## Factual narrative On September 18, 2006, at 1100 mountain standard time, a Beech A36 airplane, N9067E, veered from the runway during landing and impacted a parked, unoccupied airplane at the Chandler Municipal Airport (CHD), Chandler, Arizona. The airplane was substantially damaged and the certificated flight instructor and the private pilot under instruction were not injured. The airplane was operated by the Mesa Pilot Development, Inc., Mesa, Arizona, under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 as an instructional flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a flight plan had not been filed for the local flight that originated from the Williams Gateway Airport (IWA) at 0930. The student was an instrument rated private pilot who was finishing his commercial pilot training. According to the flight instructor's written statement, they were landing at CHD to refuel before returning to IWA. Air traffic control cleared the flight to land on runway 22R, and as the flight was on base leg, the instructor noted that they were 100 feet low and 10 knots fast. As the student (who was positioned in the right seat) flew the airplane from the base leg to final approach, the airplane overshot the runway to the right and remained low. The instructor had the student maneuver the airplane back to the left and level off so they could re-intercept the final approach centerline. The instructor noted the airplane was low and fast (airspeed indicated 80 knots on short final), and the student added "little-to-no flare" before landing. The airplane touched down and bounced before veering "sharply to the right." The instructor indicated there was no "verbal communication" established for the exchange of flight control, and as a result, she believed they were both attempting to control the airplane. The student added power and the instructor yelled "No!" and placed the throttle to idle and attempted to establish directional control. The airplane then collided with a parked airplane on the ramp and came to rest. The student's written statement was consistent with that of the instructor's. The wind was reported as calm by the flight instructor and she reported no anomalies with the airplane. An examination of the airplane by a Federal Aviation Administrator (FAA) inspector revealed no anomalies with the rudder or braking systems. The FAA defines a stabilized approach as "maintaining a stable speed, descent rate, vertical flight path and configuration." The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), in part, indicates that an approach is stabilized when all of the following criteria are met: "1. The aircraft is on the correct flight path, 2. Only small changes in heading/pitch are required to maintain the correct flight path, 3. The aircraft is not more than 20 knots (indicated) greater than the reference landing speed and not less than that reference landing speed. 4. The aircraft is in the correct landing configuration..." In addition, the FSF recommends that if an approach becomes unstabilized below 500 feet above the airplane elevation in visual conditions an immediate go-around should be conducted. ## Aircraft - Registration: N9067E (not matched to a registry record) - Reported make and model: Beech A36 - Category: Airplane - Serial number: E-2450 - Airframe hours: 4232.6 - Engines: Continental IO-550-B 300 horsepower reciprocating - Damage: Substantial damage - Flight: Instructional, Part 91 - Registered owner: Mesa Pilot Development, Inc. - Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal - Last inspection: Annual, September 1, 2006, 9 hours before - Departed: IWA, Mesa, AZ - Destination: CHD, Chandler, AZ - Airport: CHD, Chandler Municipal, runway 22R, 4,401 × 75 ft, asphalt ## Flight crew As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names. - Flight instructor; age 25; injuries: none; commercial, flight instructor; airplane ratings: multi-engine land, single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 1, without waivers/limitations; last flight review June 1, 2006; seat: left; flight hours: 906 total, 26 in this make and model, 783 as pilot in command, 117 in the last 90 days, 30 in the last 30 days, 3 in the last 24 hours - Student pilot; age 22; injuries: none; private; airplane ratings: single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 1, without waivers/limitations; last flight review July 1, 2006; seat: right; flight hours: 274 total, 108 in this make and model, 174 as pilot in command, 23 in the last 90 days, 11 in the last 30 days ## Weather - Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day - Wind: calm - Visibility: 10 statute miles - Lowest ceiling: none - Altimeter: 29.98 inHg ## FAA reports on this event (1) The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs). - [Accident 20060918020319A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060918020319A), Sep 18, 2006: Beech A36, Chandler, AZ, Substantial damage. (-23) Private pilot ^privac^ was flying the aircraft. Pilot was on final for runway 22R at Chandler airport (chd). Both the instructor and the pilot stated… From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.