- Date
- April 15, 1983, 20:58 local (Apr 16, 1983, 01:58 UTC)
- Place
- Frisco, NC
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9394QBeech V35B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830415016119A
- Case key
- 5905
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The destination arpt was unlighted & was closed from 30 min after sunset until 30 min before sunrise. Prior to the flt, the plt made arrangements for someone to take his car to the destination arpt & park it with the headlights turned on at the apch end of rwy 06. The acft arrived after dark. The person that brought the car to the arpt, reported that the plt made several low apchs to rwy 06. Each time, the plt executed a go-around. The witness noted that the southwest wind was "rocking the plane around quite a bit," that the acft was not lined up very well, & that the there was a strong x-wind component from the quartering tail wind. After about the 7th approach, the acft drifted right of the rwy & lost altitude during the go-around; then hit a power line, crashed & burned.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9394Q
- Reported as
- Beech V35B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-9162
- Airframe hours
- 2,119
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA8, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gulfstream Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 29, 1982
- Departed
- ORF · Norfolk, VA
- Airport
- 8W5 · Billy Mitchell Field, runway 6, 3,000 × 76 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 64
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,207 total · 1,065 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 190° at 17 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 149 °F, dew point 133 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HAT, 8 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.