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A B-55 pilot landed hard and skidded off the runway--collapsing the nose gear and causing dual prop strikes--when he landed with restricted visibility due to ice on the windshield.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 934725 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201102 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Baron 55/Cochise |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Cockpit Window |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 4680 Flight Crew Type 1032 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Ground Excursion Runway |
Narrative:
OAT of 60F on departure dropped to 40F enroute in VMC at night. AWOS at our destination was reporting 3;500 overcast; visibility 10 miles. No indication of ice on wings or elsewhere. When I lined up with the runway; I could see that the windshield had iced up since the view out the front was obscured. I executed a go around and moved the defroster controls to maximize defroster flow and waited several minutes while orbiting the field.I then decided to try another landing with marginal forward visibility. Started landing flare about 2 seconds too late due to poor visibility. I touched down on the runway but not pointed down the centerline. Because of the delayed flare the nose wheel slammed onto the runway and the airplane ran off the side of the runway. The nose wheel collapsed and caused the props to hit the ground (engines were at idle power) as the airplane skidded to a stop. There were no injuries; just aircraft damage. As we got out of the airplane it started to sleet; this had not been visible in the air.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A B-55 pilot landed hard and skidded off the runway--collapsing the nose gear and causing dual prop strikes--when he landed with restricted visibility due to ice on the windshield.
Narrative: OAT of 60F on departure dropped to 40F enroute in VMC at night. AWOS at our destination was reporting 3;500 overcast; visibility 10 miles. No indication of ice on wings or elsewhere. When I lined up with the runway; I could see that the windshield had iced up since the view out the front was obscured. I executed a go around and moved the defroster controls to maximize defroster flow and waited several minutes while orbiting the field.I then decided to try another landing with marginal forward visibility. Started landing flare about 2 seconds too late due to poor visibility. I touched down on the runway but not pointed down the centerline. Because of the delayed flare the nose wheel slammed onto the runway and the airplane ran off the side of the runway. The nose wheel collapsed and caused the props to hit the ground (engines were at idle power) as the airplane skidded to a stop. There were no injuries; just aircraft damage. As we got out of the airplane it started to sleet; this had not been visible in the air.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.