- Date
- April 27, 1988, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Butler, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N47024Beech C17B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880427070499A
- Case key
- 36142
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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
After landing the airplane was taxiing on runway 08 when it went off the side of the runway and struck a runway light and taxi sign. While attempting to get back on the runway, the left gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47024
- Reported as
- Beech C17B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- C17B-102
- Airframe hours
- 1,306
- Engine
- Jacobs L4MB, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Christine Maria T. Onge
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1988
- Departed
- 38D
- Airport
- BTP · Butler Co., runway 26, 3,998 × 100 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
- 37
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,681 total · 10 in this make and model · 1,320 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N47024 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.