# NTSB MIA88IA150: Beech 58, N796Q, Jacksonville, FL, April 15, 1988

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report
- Date: April 15, 1988, 19:19 local (23:19 UTC)
- Place: Jacksonville, FL
- Location: 30.3363° N, 81.5144° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at JACKSONVILLE EXEC AT CRAIG (CRG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.3363&lon=-81.5144&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report January 25, 1990
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 32057
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=MIA88IA150
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/32057/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA88IA150

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Gear not extended, landing - flare/touchdown
  - gear extension - not performed, pilot in command (cause)

## Analysis

THE PLT STATED THAT WHILE ON LANDING ROLLOUT, THE GEAR COLLAPSED & THE ACFT SLID TO A STOP ON THE RUNWAY. POST CRASH EXAMINATION OF THE LANDING GEAR REVEALED EVIDENCE THAT WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE GEAR WAS UP AND LOCKED AT THE TIME THE ACFT LANDED.

## Aircraft

- Registration: N796Q (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 58
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: TH-43
- Airframe hours: 1933
- Engines: CONTINENTAL IO-520-C1CB 285 horsepower reciprocating
- Damage: Minor damage
- Flight: Part 135
- Operator: Flight Express, Inc.
- Registered owner: R. G. Equipment Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Last inspection: Annual, June 19, 1987, 254 hours before
- Departed: 8A4, MARIETTA, GA
- Destination: CRG, JACKSONVILLE, FL
- Flight plan: IFR
- Airport: CRG, Craig Municipal, runway 22, 4,001 × 100 ft, asphalt

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 45; commercial, flight instructor; airplane ratings: single-engine land, multi-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 2, valid medical--w/ waivers/lim; seat: left; flight hours: 3,615 total, 253 in this make and model, 3,356 as pilot in command, 352 in the last 90 days, 3 in the last 24 hours

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Dusk
- Wind: 240° at 12 knots
- Visibility: 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 77 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter: 29.00 inHg
- Observed at: CRG

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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