- Date
- January 17, 1990, 11:40 local (17:40 UTC)
- Place
- West Point, MS
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3121BBeech 400
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900117001429A
- Case key
- 32618
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged distance, speed, and altitude on final approach, and failed to attain the proper touchdown Point for landing.
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 plt stated the apch to land was normal until the acft was about 150 to 200 ft AGL on final apch. He eased the power back to flt idle anticipating a perfect landing. As the engs spooled down, he realized the acft was settling quickly, so he started adding power. However, the acft touched down on an embankment about 6 ft short of the runway, damaging the left main gear. The acft then traveled onto the rwy, veered left & slid off the rwy with the rgt main gear damaged. Sparks ignited the grass, but the fire did not reach the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3121B
- Reported as
- Beech 400
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- RJ-21
- Engine
- P&W JT15D-5, 2,900 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Sara Lee Corp.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- 4R4 · Fairhope, AL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- M83 · Mccharen Field, runway 18, 3,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 4,764 total · 86 in this make and model · 4,116 as pilot in command · 216 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Observed at
- CBM, 12 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.