- Date
- January 12, 1990, 21:25 local (Jan 13, 1990, 02:25 UTC)
- Place
- Wauchula, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N50BPBeech E185
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900112000509A
- Case key
- 32614
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Probable cause
Loss of air pressure in the left main tire during flight, which resulted in a ground swerve during the landing and a nose over as the pilot was correcting with opposite brake and rudder.
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 left main landing gear tire deflated in flight. During the landing, the aircraft veered to the left & subsequently nosed over as the pilot was applying right rudder & brake to maintain directional control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50BP
- Reported as
- Beech E185
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA-455
- Airframe hours
- 10,240
- Engine
- P&W R-985-14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wauchula Flying Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 9, 1989 · 41 hours before
- Departed
- FLL · Ft Lauderdale, FL
- Airport
- FD07 · Wauchula Muni, runway 36, 3,300 × 75 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 58
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Military, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 16,000 total · 109 in this make and model · 6,000 as pilot in command · 241 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 320° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SRQ, 37 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.