- Date
- April 22, 1987, 02:00 local (07:00 UTC)
- Place
- Leesburg, GA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N478MPBeech D-55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7288
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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 a return flight at night, the aircraft crashed in an open field. The aircraft impacted the ground in a nose low attitude. The impact displaced the wing assembly rearward perpendicularly through the rear spar assembly. Both engine and propeller assemblies were buried in the ground about three feet. The investigation failed to indicate any aircraft problems. The pilot was in the process of surrendering his pilot certificate for a previous aviation violation. The pilot's state drivers license was also suspended for a moving traffic violation. Records indicated he had received 17 moving traffic violations since 1975.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N478MP
- Reported as
- Beech D-55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE477
- Airframe hours
- 4,975
- Engine
- Continental IO-520C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Arline Academy,Inc.
- Registered owner
- G.P. Owens
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 1, 1986 · 92 hours before
- Departed
- TLH · Tallahassee, FL
- Destination
- Griffin, GA
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None