- Date
- February 17, 1985, 15:55 local (23:55 UTC)
- Place
- Pasco, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1806CBeech BE-77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40118
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Plt made full flap apch at idle pwr while practicing a short field landing. Plt stated apch originally was high and later became low. Plt delayed adding pwr and acft touched down 130 ft short of the rwy. Acft bounced and contacted the ground again nose wheel first collapsing the nose gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1806C
- Reported as
- Beech BE-77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA-272
- Airframe hours
- 1,855
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Karl Bergstorm, doing business as Bergstrom Aircraft, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Thomas R. Roller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 20, 1984 · 54 hours before
- Airport
- PSC · Tri Cities, runway 30, 7,700 × 150 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 140 total · 140 in this make and model · 107 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PSC
Other investigations on N1806C · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.