# Incident 19960915032759I: Beech M35, Columbia, MO, September 15, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 15, 1996, 17:00 local time
- Place: Columbia, MO
- Airport: Columbia Regional
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.8177° N, 92.2178° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at COLUMBIA RGNL (COU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.8177&lon=-92.2178&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9795R, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9795R) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech M35 (registry code 1151526, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-m35) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental I0-470 series (registry code 17027, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-i0-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH M35
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 783 total, 27 in this make and model, 226 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960915032759I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NARRATIVE: 1. ON 09/15/96 AT 2015Z TIME, A BEECH BE-50-L23D AIRCRAFT (N9795R) DEPARTED DEXTER MUNICIPAL (DXE) AIRPORT, MISSOURI EN ROUTE TO COLUMBIA REGIONAL (COU) AIRPORT MISSOURI. ON APPROACH TO LAND AT COU, THE PILOT, KERRY L. BICKERSTAFF ELECTED TO CHANGE THE FUEL SELECTOR SETTING FROM LEFT MAIN TO LEFT AUX AT 500 FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL (AGL). WITHIN APPROXIMATELY A MINUTE, THE PILOT NOTED A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER. 2. INITIATING EMERGENCY PROCEDURES WITH APPROXIMATELY THREE MILES SOUTH OF COU IN A ROLLING HILL BOVINE PASTURE. THE PILOT LANDED THE AIRCRAFT WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. THE PILOT AND HIS THREE PASSENGERS DID NOT RECEIVE ANY INJURIES. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT. 3. DURING AN ENGINE GROUND RUN EXAMINATION, MECAHNIC DAVID WARD OF JEFFERSON CITY FLYING SERVICE DETERMINED THAT THE ENGINE OPERATED NORMALLY AND THAT THERE WERE NO MECHANICAL MALFUNCTIONS. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF FUEL CONTAMINATION. BOTH MAIN WING FUEL TANKS WERE FULL OF FUEL. BOTH AUXILIARY WING FUEL TANKS WERE EMPTY. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE HAD CHANGED THE FUEL SELECTION FROM LEFT MAIN TO LEFT AUX ON APPROACH TO LAND AT COU AT APPROXIMATELY 500 FEET AGL.^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^                      ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ THIS INCIDENT INVESTIGATION WAS COORDINATED WITH GENERAL AVIATION OPERATIONS. 5. THIS INCIDENT NUMBER ^PRIVACY DAT^IS CLOSED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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