- Date
- February 11, 1987, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Oneonta, NY
- Injuries
- 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N699CABeech 99
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870211002629A
- Case key
- 30484
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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 flight was uneventful until its arrival at Oneonta municipal airport. The aircraft landed 10 feet short of runway 24IN one foot of snow. The left main landing gear collapsed, the propeller struck the runway and the aircraft veered off the left side of the runway into a snow bank, collapsing the landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N699CA
- Reported as
- Beech 99
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U114
- Airframe hours
- 35,195
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-27, 680 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Catskill Airways,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Catskill Airways, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · February 10, 1987 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- LGA · Flushing, NY
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- N66 · Oneonta Municipal, runway 24, 3,400 × 75 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane, Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,335 total · 1,700 in this make and model · 2,540 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- N66, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.