- Date
- November 16, 1988, 12:25 local (17:25 UTC)
- Place
- Sanford, FL
- Injuries
- 12 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N707MBBoeing 707-355C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Safety recommendations
- Yes
- Case key
- 32323
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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 non-type rated FAA flight test engineer executed a visual approach and was observed to be erratic and flying at v-ref when he chopped the power at 50 ft AGL and the aircraft landed hard. The instructor pilot then took control of the aircraft and executed a go-around. After flight to the final destination minor damage was found on post flight inspection.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N707MB
- Reported as
- Boeing 707-355C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19986
- Airframe hours
- 39,210
- Engine
- P&W JT3D-3C, 18,000 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Nmb, Singapore Ltd
- Registered owner
- Nmb Singapore Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- AAIP · November 6, 1988 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- MCO · Orlando, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SFB · Sanford, runway 9, 8,000 × 150 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
- 65
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 34,000 total · 12,000 in this make and model · 28,000 as pilot in command · 94 in the last 90 days · 58 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SFB