- Date
- April 1, 1989, 08:37 local (15:37 UTC)
- Place
- Tucson, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23972Beech C24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890401005119A
- Case key
- 26363
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Probable cause
Pilot misjudged the landing. The pilot began his flare too high above the runway resulting in a hard landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot of a Beech C24R landed hard on runway 06 at ryn, Tucson, AZ. The nose and main landing gear collapsed and the airplane slid off of the runway. During a telephone interview, the student pilot stated that he was practicing touch and go landings on runway 06. He was on about his eighth landing when the accident occurred. He began his flare for landing too high, about ten feet above the runway, and the airplane dropped in hard on the main landing gear. The nose gear collapsed first, then the right and left main landing gear. The airplane departed the runway, on its belly, into the dirt. There were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23972
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Barton Hodes
- Registered owner
- Hodes, Barton
- Airport
- RYN · Ryan Fld., runway 6, 5,500 × 75 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 40 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.