- Date
- May 25, 1990, 09:23 local (13:23 UTC)
- Place
- Blue Bell, PA
- Injuries
- 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N416WABritten-Norman BN2A-2F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900525017379A
- Case key
- 36534
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Probable cause
The close proximity of the road to the threshold of the runway. Factors contributing to the accident were the obstruction to the driver's vision caused by trees and buildings.
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 aircraft had departed philadelphia on a regularly scheduled flight to wings field, PA, and was on short final to runway 06 when the right main landing gear hit the right side of a car travelling east on a state road that runs south of the approach end of the runway. The aircraft landed, travelled about 3/4 of the way down the runway, before it came to rest in the grass to the right of the runway, resting on the right wing tip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N416WA
- Reported as
- Britten-Norman BN2A-2F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2015
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-E4C5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Pennsylvania Aviation Inc., doing business as Wings Airways
- Departed
- PHL · Philadelphia, PA
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- BAX · Blue Bell, runway 6, 2,650 × 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
- 25
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 4,200 total · 600 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.