- Date
- January 18, 1985, 16:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Beaver, WV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N69938Cessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850118003569A
- Case key
- 6735
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
The acft collided with a snow bank during landing ground run on an icy rwy. Plts vision obstructed by ice on windshield. Icing was encountered about 10 mins prior to landing. SIGMET and plt reports indicated the presence of icing. The plt had filed an IFR flt plan. The flt had departed beckley for tri-city arpt about 1030 on the day of the accident.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69938
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310Q1029
- Airframe hours
- 4,150
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-VO, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Raleigh County Flight Ser.,Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 11, 1985 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- TRI · Blountville, TN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BKW · Raleigh-Co Memorial, runway 19, 6,750 × 150 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
- 26
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,820 total · 620 in this make and model · 2,575 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BKW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.