- Date
- March 24, 1993, 17:40 local (22:40 UTC)
- Place
- Blountville, TN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8555RBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930324006749A
- Case key
- 8729
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Probable cause
The intentional operation of the aircraft with a partial failure of the brake system and the failure of the pilot to attain the proper touchdown point. Factors in the accident were the sunglare and the partial loss of the aircraft brake system.
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 pilot stated that during the engine run up prior to the flight, the aircraft brakes would not hold the aircraft from rolling. He stated that during the visual approach, the sun blinded him momentarily and he lost sight of the runway. When he regained sight of the runway, he was high and fast for the landing. He elected to attempt to land the aircraft beyond the normal touchdown point and the aircraft ran off the end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8555R
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-527
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Vca Inc.
- Registered owner
- Vca Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- INT · Winston-Salem, NC
- Destination
- TRI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- TRI · Tri City Regional, runway 27, 4,447 × 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 921 total · 491 in this make and model · 847 as pilot in command · 272 in the last 90 days · 94 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TRI, 1 nm away
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 N8555R · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.