- Date
- October 2, 1990, 15:26 local (22:26 UTC)
- Place
- Seattle, WA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7232KBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901002046809A
- Case key
- 41350
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Probable cause
The pilot did not flare the airplane on landing. Factors related to the accident were: the pilot did not adequately recover from a bounced landing and the nose gear assembly failed in overload.
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.
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overloadFactor
Lift-off - not performedCause
Recovery from bounced landing - inadequateFactor
Analysis
At the end of a cross country flight, during landing, the airplane bounced three times before the nose gear collapsed and the airplane slid to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7232K
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-1477
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-C, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Flightcraft Inc.
- Departed
- CYAZ · Tofino, OF
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BFI · Boeing Fld, runway 13, 10,001 × 200 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 6,210 total · 75 in this make and model · 4,720 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 100 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.