# Accident 20170626024629A: Beech 58, Aransas Pass, TX, June 26, 2017

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 26, 2017, 10:45 local time
- Place: Aransas Pass, TX
- Airport: Mccampbell-Porter Airport
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 27.9136° N, 97.2119° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.9136&lon=-97.2119&mi=10
- Aircraft: N58SM, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N58SM-2019-12-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 58 (registry code 1152740, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-58) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-520 series (registry code 17040, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 58
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 1
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 27,000 total, 1,500 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB GAA17CA365](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA17CA365) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20170626024629A

## Narrative

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

ON JUNE 26, 2017, AIRMAN ARRIVED AT MCCAMPBELL-PORTER AIRPORT FROM THE SOUTH. THE APPROACH AND LANDING ON RUNWAY 31 WERE UNEVENTFUL.

AS THE AIRMAN WAS LETTING THE AIRCRAFT ROLL TO THE END OF THE RUNWAY, A TRUCK PULLING A TRAILER AND TRACTOR WAS OBSERVED DRIVING PARALLEL TO THE RUNWAY. THE TRUCK WAS THEN SEEN MAKING A SUDDEN TURN TO THE CENTER OF THE RUNWAY. THE AIRMAN NOTICED THIS AND NOTICED A HESITATION FROM THE TRUCK, SO HE ASSUMED THE TRUCK WAS STOPPING. THE AIRMAN STEERED THE AIRCRAFT TO THE RIGHT TO GIVE A WIDER BERTH.

THE TRUCK SUDDENLY ACCELERATED AND ATTEMPTED TO CROSS THE RUNWAY. THE AIRMAN ATTEMPTED TO AVOID HITTING THE TRUCK BY STEERING TO THE LEFT AS MUCH AS HE COULD. ULTIMATELY, THE AIRCRAFT'S RIGHT WING HIT THE TRAILER AND TRACTOR CAUSING AN INSTANT FIRE THAT COVERED THE TRACTOR, TRAILER AND AIRCRAFT.

ONCE THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED TO ITS STOP, THE FIRE LOST STRENGTH AND THE AIRMAN EVACUATED THE AIRCRAFT WITH ONLY MINOR INJURIES AND BURNS.

THE AIRMAN AND DRIVER OF THE TRUCK MET ON THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY. THE DRIVER ADMITTED TO THE AIRMAN THAT HE CROSSED THE RUNWAY BELIEVING HE COULD BEAT THE AIRCRAFT. THIS SAME STATEMENT WAS MADE TO OTHER AIRPORT PERSONNEL.

ON A FOLLOWING INTERVIEW, THE DRIVER CHANGED HIS STATEMENT, SAYING HE NEVER SAW THE AIRCRAFT LAND AND ROLL DOWN THE RUNWAY UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.

THE AIRMAN STATED HE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO GO AROUND AND CARRIED TO MUCH SPEED TO STOP, ALTHOUGH THE ATTEMPT TO STOP WAS MADE.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB GAA17CA365](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA17CA365), Jun 26, 2017: Beech 58 (N58SM), Ingleside, TX, destroyed. Probable cause: The pilot’s inability to avoid a collision with an unauthorized vehicle on the runway during the landing roll and the truck driver’s decision to cross the runway in front of the airplane.

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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