- Date
- August 27, 1987, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bremerton, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18832Beech C-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870827066089A
- Case key
- 40692
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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.
Undershoot
Distance - misjudgedCause
Touchdown - prematureCause
Nose gear collapsed
Terrain condition - rough/unevenFactor
Analysis
On the pilots third touch and go an undershoot occurred during landing onto runway 1. VASI lights are available for that runway. The plt was unable to explain why the undershoot occurred.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18832
- Reported as
- Beech C-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1950
- Airframe hours
- 1,926
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4J, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- E.E. Stendahl
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Destination
- PWT · Bremerton, WA
- Airport
- PWT · Bremerton Nat'L Arpt, runway 1, 6,200 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 760 total · 102 in this make and model · 535 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PWT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.