Incident Overview

Date: Sunday 25 November 2001
Aircraft Type: Beechcraft 100 King Air
Owner/operator: Jorge Wady Cecilio
Registration Number: PT-DNP
Location: Buriti Alegre Airfield, GO – ÿ Brazil
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Component Affected: Landing GearLanding Gear
Investigating Agency: CENIPACENIPA
Category: Accident
A Beechcraft 100 King Air, bound for Buriti Alegre, Brazil, experienced a catastrophic landing following a pilot error during a downwind leg. The pilot attempted to select flaps twice, but the systems circuit breakers failed, leading to a landing without flaps. The aircraft lost height, impacted a fence, and subsequently caught fire, resulting in a loss of landing gear and a significant fire. The pilot?s actions ? attempting a low landing without sufficient speed ? contributed to the incident.A Beechcraft 100 King Air, bound for Buriti Alegre, Brazil, experienced a catastrophic landing following a pilot error during a downwind leg. The pilot attempted to select flaps twice, but the systems circuit breakers failed, leading to a landing without flaps. The aircraft lost height, impacted a fence, and subsequently caught fire, resulting in a loss of landing gear and a significant fire. The pilot?s actions ? attempting a low landing without sufficient speed ? contributed to the incident.

Description

The Beechcraft 100 King Air took off from Goiƒnia Airport, Brazil bound for Buriti Alegre. During the downwind leg for a landing on runway 05, the pilot tried to select the flaps twice, but the systems circuit breakers jumped. The pilot decided to land without using flaps. On short final, the aircraft lost height and the main landing gear impacted the perimeter fence, 15 meters from the runway threshold. On impact, the landing gear was torn off and the aircraft due to the application of power by the pilot, flew for 500 meters. The aircraft touched down without landing gear and slid on the runway to its full stop when a fire started which consumed the airplane. Contributing factors (translated from Portuguese): – There may have been a failure in the pilot’s training process, as he performed a landing without flaps and decided to come in low, without the appropriate speed increase, procedures contrary to those taught in flight schools. – The pilot thought he should carry out a landing with a small angle to land on the threshold, regardless of the increase in speed required to perform landing without flaps, which he led the impact with the fence before the runway.

Primary Cause

Pilot training error ? attempting a landing without flaps and low speed without proper procedures.Pilot training error ? attempting a landing without flaps and low speed without proper procedures.

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