- Date
- August 10, 2024, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sequim, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N354ALBeech N35
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20240810020789A
- Case key
- 194925
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
An encounter with a downdraft, which resulted in a hard landing.
Findings · 2
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 of the airplane reported that, during final approach to the runway, the airplane was too low. The airplane then encountered a downdraft and landed hard at the approach end of the runway. As a result, the nose and right main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N354AL
- Reported as
- Beech N35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-6570
- Built
- 1960
- Airframe hours
- 3,739.5
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- None
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 28, 2023
- Departed
- KPWT · Bremerton, WA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 2WA1 · Diamond Point Airstrip, runway 29, 2,335 × 24 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 78
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Waiver time limited special
- Last flight review
- June 28, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,036.9 total · 300.5 in this make and model · 988.3 as pilot in command · 9.8 in the last 90 days · 7.9 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- K0S9, 5 nm away
- METAR
- METAR K0S9 102115Z AUTO 22007KT 10SM CLR 21/15 A3000 RMK AO2=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 6, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.6 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.