- Date
- February 25, 1985, 10:38 local (18:38 UTC)
- Place
- Concord, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64JKCessna 421
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850225024449A
- Case key
- 24662
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.
Hard landing
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Altitude - misjudgedCause
Flare - misjudgedCause
Analysis
The acft sustained wing spar damage during a hard landing. Plt stated he misjudged height of the acft over the rwy and let the airspeed become too slow during the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64JK
- Reported as
- Cessna 421
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-H, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Paul Byus
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- IYK · Inyokern, CA
- Destination
- CCR · Concord, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- CCR · Buchanan, runway 1, 4,700 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 213 total · 41 in this make and model · 170 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.