- Date
- September 15, 1987, 22:55 local (Sep 16, 1987, 02:55 UTC)
- Place
- Baltimore, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N150TCBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11293
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
Duel alternator failure occurred abt 13 min aft dept. The acft returned and lndd uneventfully. However, while taxiing back to the maint hgr the plt failed to follow the marked taxiway and collided with a ditch. Construction was taking place on the arpt and the taxiway edge was marked with barricades with lights on top. Some of the barricades were found knocked down and some of the lights were hard to see in the direction from which the acft was coming.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N150TC
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-137
- Airframe hours
- 6,547
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Congressional Air Ltd
- Registered owner
- Timothy F. Gorka
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 25, 1987 · 14 hours before
- Destination
- Teterboro, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BWI · Baltimore-Washington Intl, runway 28, 9,452 × 200 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
- 26
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,300 total · 1,100 in this make and model · 54 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg