- Date
- September 22, 1983, 19:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Pomona, NJ
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4148WBeech B55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830922051089A
- Case key
- 35281
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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
During the landing roll the plt applied brakes and the left main landing gear collpased. The acft turned to the left and the remaining gear collapsed. The acft veered off the side of the rwy, dug into the soft dirt and spun around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4148W
- Reported as
- Beech B55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-1561
- Airframe hours
- 3,400
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Donald C. Labrecque
- Registered owner
- Jo Don Enterprises Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1983 · 35 hours before
- Departed
- TEB · Teterboro, NJ
- Destination
- ACY · Pomona, NJ
- Airport
- ACY · Atlantic City, runway 22, 6,144 × 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
- 41
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,620 total · 385 in this make and model · 3,547 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 240° at 15 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.