- Date
- March 24, 1990, 10:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Everglades City, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24613Beech B-19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900324030489A
- Case key
- 32640
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Probable cause
The pilots failure to flare the aircraft for landing resulting in the nose landing gear contacting the runway causing it to separate.
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 touched down on the nose landing gear first which caused it to collapse. The plt attempted to maneuver the acft off the rwy & while doing so, tha acft nosed over after the broken strut sank in soft sand.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24613
- Reported as
- Beech B-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-554
- Engine
- Lycoming O320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Howell, Robert C.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- LNA · West Palm Beach, FL
- Airport
- X01 · Everglades, runway 15, 2,400 × 50 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
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 210 total · 20 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- FMY, 52 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.