- Date
- May 19, 1983, 09:28 local (13:28 UTC)
- Place
- Bangor, ME
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N24687Beech Sport
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830519020089A
- Case key
- 35187
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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.
Analysis
The acft ran off the runway and collapsed the landing gear during landing. The student pilot had made 7 successful landings. On this final landing a gust of wind blew the acft across the runway and the pilot lost direction control. The acft went off the left side of the runway and the landing gear collapsed. The student pilot was not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24687
- Reported as
- Beech Sport
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-575
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Roger L. Lathrop
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 6, 1983
- Departed
- BGR · Bangor, ME
- Airport
- BGR · Bangor, runway 33, 14,000 × 300 ft, concrete
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 19 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.