- Date
- June 21, 1983, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Glens Falls, NY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N20167Beech BE-58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830621030689A
- Case key
- 35207
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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 landed with the wheels up on a dual instructional flight. The flight had been doing air work before returning to glen Falls to continue training with takeoffs and landings. During the 1st landing the acft came over the threshold a little low but it ballooned a bit during the flare. The acft touched down with the gear up resulting in substantial damage to the acft. The two pilots were not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N20167
- Reported as
- Beech BE-58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH948
- Airframe hours
- 1,154
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-3, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Levonian Bros., Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 17, 1983 · 105 hours before
- Departed
- ALB · Albany, NY
- Destination
- GFL · Glens Falls, NY
- Airport
- GFL · Glens Falls, runway 1, 5,007 × 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
- 62
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 14,847 total · 393 in this make and model · 14,681 as pilot in command · 113 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ALB
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.