- Date
- September 1, 2013, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Homedale, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N212GBeech C-50
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Loss of lift
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 19, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration FSDO
- FAA report
- 20130901016339A
- Case key
- 87934
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot's delayed action to arrest a loss of altitude on short final, which resulted in a loss of aircraft control and collision with a fence post.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that this was the first time landing his multi-engine airplane on his private grass airstrip. The flight handbook revealed that the required landing distance was about equal to the full length of the runway. The pilot reported performing a stabilized approach, with an intended touchdown point 200 feet down the runway. As he approached short final, the airplane began to sink, and he increased engine power. This did not arrest the descent, so he applied full engine power; however, the airplane touched down short of the runway and struck a fence post with the left wing, which resulted in substantial damage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation, and further stated that the accident could have been avoided if he had performed a go-around at the first indication of altitude loss.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that this was the first time landing his multi-engine airplane on his private grass airstrip. The flight handbook revealed that the required landing distance was about equal to the full length of the runway. The pilot reported performing a stabilized approach, with an intended touchdown point 200 feet down the runway. As he approached short final, the airplane began to sink, and he increased engine power. This did not arrest the descent, so he applied full engine power; however, the airplane touched down short of the runway and struck a fence post with the left wing, which resulted in substantial damage. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation, and further stated that the accident could have been avoided if he had performed a go-around at the first indication of altitude loss.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N212G
- Reported as
- Beech C-50
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CH-331
- Built
- 1955
- Airframe hours
- 5,720
- Engines
- Lycoming GO-480 SERIES, 295 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming GO-480 SERIES, 295 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bailey Orin A
- Registered owner
- Bailey Orin A
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 15, 2013 · 5 hours before
- Departed
- KMAN · Nampa, ID
- Destination
- PVT · Homedale, ID
- Airport
- PVT · Private, runway 22, 1,400 × 75 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Stall warning system
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
- 79
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 13, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 25,000 total · 600 in this make and model · 15,000 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 0.3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- KMAN, 27 nm away
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 2, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.