20030130006189I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech N35 · Mount Pleasant, MI · January 30, 2003

Date: January 30, 2003 · 18:35 local
Place: Mount Pleasant, MI
Phase of flight: Final Approach
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N424T
Reported as: Beech N35
Reported engine: Continental IO470N
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0

N424TRegistered now · Beech N35S/N D-6806 Airframe modelBeech N35

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23) Engine lost power enroute at night and was being vectored by mbs approach to mop. Aircraft did not have sufficient power to make mop so pilot landed on large light area thought to be a field (frozen lake). Aircraft touched down parallel to shoreline and rolled out crossing a peninsula, folding the left and nose landing gear, and bending the propeller. Aircraft came to rest on the ice near the shore.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) ENGINE LOST POWER ENROUTE AT NIGHT AND WAS BEING VECTORED BY MBS APPROACH TO MOP. AIRCRAFT DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT POWER TO MAKE MOP SO PILOT LANDED ON LARGE LIGHT AREA THOUGHT TO BE A FIELD (FROZEN LAKE). AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN PARALLEL TO SHORELINE AND ROLLED OUT CROSSING A PENINSULA, FOLDING THE LEFT AND NOSE LANDING GEAR, AND BENDING THE PROPELLER. AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST ON THE ICE NEAR THE SHORE.