- Date
- October 1, 1989, 12:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Colquitt, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4277ABeech V35B
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891001037319A
- Case key
- 8163
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to obtain current enroute weather information for his destination resulting in his flying VMC into IMC conditions which resulted in his collision with powerlines while making a precautionary landing on a road.
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
Plt received weather briefing prior to departure. Plt additionally received current weather at tallahassee enroute. Plt did not get update weather for destination enroute. Nine miles from destination flt encountered instrument weather conditions. Plt reversed course and again encountered IMC. While at 500 feet in a one mile diameter hole plt elected to make a precautionary landing on a road. On approach to the road the airplane collided with a powerline severing the right landing gear. On touchdown the airplane veered off the road into a ditch. The pilot reported on the NTSB accident report form that his last biennial flight review was 27 months prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4277A
- Reported as
- Beech V35B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D9249
- Airframe hours
- 2,500
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- David E. Miller
- Registered owner
- David E Miller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 31, 1988 · 200 hours before
- Departed
- FXE · Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Destination
- MAI · Marianna, FL
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 490 total · 270 in this make and model · 420 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4277A · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.