- Date
- May 19, 1991, 15:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Spanish Fork, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4019TBeech B23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910519016409A
- Case key
- 41436
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Probable cause
The pilot did not adequately recover from a bounced landing. Factors to the accident were: a poorly planned approach, and the pilot's lack of total flight experience.
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
While practicing a touch-and-go landing, the airplane bounced. The airplane bounced three times before the pilot applied full power to try and recover. The airplane drifted to the left of the runway and the left wing dropped and struck the runway. The airplane spun to the left, collapsing the landing gear, and came to rest off the side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4019T
- Reported as
- Beech B23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1126
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Samuel J. Hammond
- Airport
- U77 · Spanish Fork, runway 3, 5,700 × 75 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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 141 total · 16 in this make and model · 22 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- 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.