ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 240457
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| Date: | Monday 24 August 2020 |
| Time: | 10:20 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft A55 Baron |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N8629M |
| MSN: | TC-498 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5404 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-470-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Nashville Airport, Nashville, TN -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Nashville International Airport, TN (BNA/KBNA) |
| Nashville International Airport, TN (BNA/KBNA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The commercial pilot was on her second flight of multi-engine flight instruction as she completed an approach and flared the airplane for landing. The instructor said his attention was "outside" as he monitored the airplane's height, drift, runway alignment, and guarded the throttles.
The airplane suddenly landed hard, bounced back into the air, and did not respond as expected to the instructor's remedial actions. The engines responded to an increase in throttle for a goaround, but there was no corresponding increase in thrust. The airplane drifted to its left, and the instructor chose to close the throttles, and perform a controlled landing. The airplane departed the runway surface and came to rest in the grass infield with substantial damage to the fuselage forward of the cockpit.
According to the instructor, there were no deficiencies in the performance and handling of the airplane. The student pilot had experienced a negative habit transfer from her experience in the airplane she was accustomed to flying as the configuration of its throttle quadrant differed from the accident airplane and she had inadvertently reduced (feathered) the propellers rather than reducing the throttles while landing.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inadvertent feathering of the propellers during the landing flare, which resulted in a
hard landing. A factor in the accident was the instructor's failure to fully monitor the pilot's manipulation of the levers in the airplane's non-standard throttle quadrant.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/08/24/nashville-airport-small-plane-skids-off-runway-no-injuries/3431422001/
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N8629M/history/20200824/1505Z
NTSB
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Aug-2020 06:14 | gerard57 | Added |
| 25-Aug-2020 06:43 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn] |
| 25-Aug-2020 07:07 | RobertMB | Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 25-Aug-2020 07:08 | RobertMB | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 27-Jun-2021 19:54 | aaronwk | Updated [Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category] |
| 27-Jun-2021 19:56 | harro | Updated [Source, Narrative, Accident report] |
| 07-Jun-2023 05:45 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Source, Narrative, Accident report]] |
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