- Date
- June 30, 1988, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Greensboro, NC
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5335RBeech K35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880630027269A
- Case key
- 7782
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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 flight was climbing to 11,000 feet with an instrument flight clearance when a propeller blade separated from the hub. The blade was subsequently recovered from the yard of a local resident. The fracture examination disclosed that the cracking originated in the threaded portion of hub. The failure resulted from fatigue cracking through about 60% of the shank's diameter. The pilot landed the aircraft on the runway after gliding from about 9,000 feet without further incident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5335R
- Reported as
- Beech K35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 05803
- Airframe hours
- 2,690
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-C, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James And Joan P. Scott
- Registered owner
- James P. Scott II
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1988 · 62 hours before
- Departed
- PDK · Atlanta, GA
- Destination
- Wilmington, DE
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GSO · Greensboro, runway 5, 10,000 × 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
- 55
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 18,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 100 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GSO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.