- Date
- June 3, 1983, 20:40 local (Jun 4, 1983, 00:40 UTC)
- Place
- Clearwater, FL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N275ZABeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830603026179A
- Case key
- 30893
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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 acft collided with a dirt mound and taxiway during landing to the left of the rwy. The plt stated that due to poor visibility caused by haze and the setting sun that he mistook a white line of sand as the centerline of the rwy. This line was left of the rwy and the landing off the rwy led to the collapse of the landing nose gear and left main gear as the acft struck a dirt mound and a taxi way. The right main gear collapsed after the other gear failed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N275ZA
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH 402
- Airframe hours
- 2,800
- Engine
- Continental IO-520C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Florida Medical Air Evac, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 24, 1983 · 58 hours before
- Departed
- ORL · Orlando, FL
- Airport
- CLW · Clearwater Executive, runway 15, 3,300 × 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
- 51
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,487 total · 717 in this make and model · 3,061 as pilot in command · 92 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 10° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIE, 5 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.