- Date
- August 24, 1994, 11:46 local (18:46 UTC)
- Place
- Everett, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2371ZBeech 23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940824022989A
- Case key
- 42007
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control, and his inadequate remedial action. Factors include a fence in the vicinity of the runway.
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
According to the pilot, the aircraft began to porpoise after a bounced landing, and he lost directional control while attempting to recover. As the aircraft began to depart the runway, the pilot attempted remedial action, but was unable to keep the aircraft from exiting the runway and impacting a fence.
Factual narrative
On August 24, 1994, at 1146 Pacific daylight time (PDT), a Beech 23, N2371Z, impacted a fence during the landing roll at Paine Field, Everett, Washington. The student pilot, who was the sole occupant, was not injured, but the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The solo instructional flight, which departed the same location about 10 minutes earlier, was operating in visual meteorological conditions at the time of the accident. No flight plan had been filed, and there was no report of an ELT activation.
According to the pilot, the aircraft began to porpoise after a bounced landing, and he lost directional control while attempting to recover. As the aircraft began to depart the runway, the pilot attempted remedial action, but was unable to keep the aircraft from exiting the runway and impacting a fence.
Although the student pilot talked to the IIC by phone immediately after the accident, he would not return future calls, and did not return the NTSB Form 6120.1/2 that was mailed to him. A second 6120.1/2 was sent by certified mail, but was not able to be delivered by the U. S. Postal Service.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2371Z
- Reported as
- Beech 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-74
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2C, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Conrad, Peter K.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport; Special, Experimental (Special); Standard, Normal
- Airport
- PAE · Paine Field, runway 34R, 3,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 270° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N2371Z · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.