- Date
- December 19, 1990, 07:30 local (11:30 UTC)
- Place
- San Juan, PR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N433CACASA C-212-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901219063559I
- Case key
- 32806
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Probable cause
Loss of control while flaring to land due to undetermined reasons.
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
While flaring to land, the captain & first officer stated that the rt prop beta light illuminated. The acft then yawed to the rt, descended rt wing low which contacted the ground. The acft remained on the ground, travelled off the rwy, & came to rest on grass adjacent to the rwy. The acft was removed & the following day under the supervision of the FAA, the rt eng & prop were operationally tested which revealed no evidene of malfunction of the propeller blade angle rigging, fuel flow, or worn flight idle gate. According to the NTSB form 6120.1/2, filled out by the director of flt ops, wake turbulence was suspected for the loss of control. No determination could be made as to the reason for the loss of control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N433CA
- Reported as
- CASA C-212-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 272
- Airframe hours
- 10,568
- Engine
- Garrett TPE331-10-501, 900 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Executive Airline, Inc., doing business as American Eagle
- Registered owner
- Island International Leasing
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- AAIP · December 12, 1990 · 29 hours before
- Airport
- SJU · Luis Munoz Marin Int'L, runway 8, 10,002 × 200 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
- 47
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 18,000 total · 1,900 in this make and model · 106 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SJU
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.