- Date
- August 27, 1987, 15:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Bermuda Dunes, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6751DBeech B-60
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870827079509A
- Case key
- 25675
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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.
Analysis
The right main landing gear hit the runway lip upon touchdown on runway 11 and collapsed. At the time of the accident the runway's overrun area was under construction and there was a nine inch lip at the runway end. The pilot was aware of the construction project.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6751D
- Reported as
- Beech B-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P539
- Airframe hours
- 1,180
- Engine
- Lycoming TI0-541, 380 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Franklin, Marc B.
- Registered owner
- Marc B Franklin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 3, 1987 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- ONT · Ontario, CA
- Destination
- UDD
- Airport
- UDD · Bermuda Dunes, runway 11, 4,005 × 60 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,554 total · 127 in this make and model · 1,266 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 111 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TRM, 8 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.