- Date
- September 15, 1985, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Danbury, CT
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6429SBeech BE-55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850915071709A
- Case key
- 35965
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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.
Complete gear collapsed
Landing gear - failure,total
Landing gear - undeterminedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt stated that on touchdown the left main gear collapsed followed by the right main gear and nose gear. The acft slid aprx 600 to 700 ft before stopping. According to the plt he confirmed the gear was down and locked while on base. A gear cycle test performed on the acft after the accident failed to disclose any mechanical failure/malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6429S
- Reported as
- Beech BE-55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-1073
- Airframe hours
- 1,034
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Blue Bird Aviation
- Registered owner
- Ff Aircraft Leasing Ltd.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 12, 1985 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- Mt. Pocono, PA
- Destination
- DXR · Danbury, CT
- Airport
- DXR · Danbury Municipal, runway 35, 3,137 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,441 total · 823 in this make and model · 29 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DXR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.