- Date
- March 28, 1992, 15:55 local (22:55 UTC)
- Place
- Phoenix, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66350Beech C-24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920328007619A
- Case key
- 27584
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Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight and the private pilot's failure to maintain airspeed. Contributing to this accident was the failure of the main landing gear due to overload.
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 certificated private pilot was receiving an airplane make and model company check-out from a certified flight instructor (CFI). While executing a no flap approach the CFI failed to adequately supervise the flight by failing to monitor the airspeed. The private pilot failed to maintain the airspeed to the point that the airplane stalled and landed hard. After landing the airplane pivoted to the left and continued down the runway until the main and nose landing gears collapsed from overload.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66350
- Reported as
- Beech C-24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC687
- Airframe hours
- 1,789
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Westwind Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Johnson, Leonard
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 16, 1992 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- DVT · Deer Valley Airport, runway 25, 8,200 × 100 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 956 total · 6 in this make and model · 864 as pilot in command · 112 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 45 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.