- Date
- June 15, 2023, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Edna, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N99PLBeech 95
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 192394
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during a precautionary off-field landing.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
While the pilot was enroute to his destination, he reported that the airplane door opened inflight, so he performed a precautionary landing to a rural road. During the landing, the pilot lost control of the airplane and it veered left and entered a corn field. The left landing gear collapsed, and the airplane came to rest upright. Examination of the airframe by responding inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration found substantial damage to the right wing and that the interior of the airplane had been mostly dismantled. There were no knobs or placards for the fuel selectors. Fuel lines to both engines were empty of fuel. Flight control continuity was confirmed. The pilot did not submit the National Transportation Safety Board Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident/Incident Report Form 6120.1.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N99PL
- Reported as
- Beech 95
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TD-285
- Built
- 1959
- Engines
- Lycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocatingLycoming O-360-A1A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- TX42 · Monaville, TX
- Destination
- KTXW · Weslaco, TX
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 150° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.71 inHg
- Observed at
- KVCT, 20 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KVCT 152251Z 15015G25KT 10SM SCT028 BKN035 33/26 A2971 RMK AO2 SLP056 T03280261=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 4, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.9 MB in all.