- Date
- April 7, 1993, 20:00 local (Apr 8, 1993, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Old Bridge, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6986RBeech B19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 37303
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in overload failure of the nose gear.
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 departed from an airport, that was NOTAM closed, for a local flight. The pilot's first attempt to land at the departure airport resulted in a bounced landing and a go around. The pilot's second attempt to land at the departure airport also resulted in a bounced landing, followed by a collapsed nose gear. The airplane slid to a stop on the runway and a post crash fire erupted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6986R
- Reported as
- Beech B19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-753
- Airframe hours
- 3,700
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E3D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sanford Gorzelsky
- Registered owner
- Sanford Gorzelsky
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 31, 1993 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- 3N6
- Destination
- 3N6
- Airport
- 3N6 · Old Bridge, runway 24, 3,594 × 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,922 total · 150 in this make and model · 1,248 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TTN, 24 nm away