- Date
- March 17, 1984, 08:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Phoenix, AZ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N131TWBeech 55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840317005749A
- Case key
- 24205
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Landing gear,normal brake system - wornCause
Maintenance,inspection - inadequateCause
Landing gear,normal brake system - lockedCause
Directional control - not possibleCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolled
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - soft
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
The acft veered off the rwy into soft dirt collapsing the right main landing gear. The left brake was found
Aircraft
- Registration
- N131TW
- Reported as
- Beech 55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-963
- Airframe hours
- 78
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- George Peterson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1983 · 4 hours before
- Airport
- PHX · Sky Harbor, runway 8L, 11,000 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,356 total · 1,643 in this make and model · 16 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PHX
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.