- Date
- August 24, 1986, 11:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Ardmore, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N285GBeech BE-19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860824044329A
- Case key
- 7168
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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
During the landing attempt, the pilot elected to go-around after he realized that a safe landing could not be completed. During the go-around the acft settled to the rwy after the pilot retracted the flaps. The acft rolled off the departure end of the rwy at full pwr and collided with a dirt pile and rocks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N285G
- Reported as
- Beech BE-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-783
- Airframe hours
- 2,300
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth Abercrombie
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 1986
- Departed
- 2M2 · Lawrenceburg, TN
- Destination
- Ardmore, AL
- Airport
- 1M3 · Ardmore, runway 15, 2,600 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 33
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,391 total · 17 in this make and model · 1,114 as pilot in command · 202 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.