- Date
- February 2, 1983, 08:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wilkes-Barre, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9900RBeech G18S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35149
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - inadvertentFactor
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overloadFactor
Landing gear,main gear - failure,totalFactor
Analysis
The plt lost directional control & collided with a drainage ditch causing the main gear to collapse.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9900R
- Reported as
- Beech G18S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA-513
- Airframe hours
- 5,146
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Taxi, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Cannavo, Frank Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Allentown, PA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- AVP · Wilkes-Barre, runway 22, 6,450 × 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
- 26
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 4,378 total · 105 in this make and model · 2,435 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft unknown
- Observed at
- 06