- Date
- June 13, 1992, 16:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Farmingdale, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N17818Beech 33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 37178
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing which resulted in collapsing of the nose gear. A factor in the accident was gusting cross winds.
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 pilot made a hard landing, the airplane bounced coming down nose first which resulted in the nose gear collapsing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17818
- Reported as
- Beech 33A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CE710
- Airframe hours
- 2,096
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gerald L. Dorf
- Registered owner
- Hgd Aircraft Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 29, 1991 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- 5B6 · Falmouth, MA
- Airport
- BLM · Allaire, runway 21, 3,700 × 50 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total · 624 in this make and model · 1,050 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F
Other investigations on N17818 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.