- Date
- May 14, 2000, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Holmen, WI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5665SBeech A23-19
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 49180
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing. Factors associated with the accident were the crosswind, along with the runway light, windsock, garden, and swimming pool that the airplane contacted.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot performed a go-around due to the crosswind condition during his first landing. He reported a gust of wind lifted the airplane during the second landing which resulted in the airplane traveling off the right side of the runway. The airplane contacted a runway light, a wind sock, a garden, and shrubs. The right wing then contacted a maple tree which yawed the airplane to the right and it came to rest in a swimming pool. The inspector reported the residence where the swimming pool was located was approximately 150 to 200 feet from the runway. Wind reported at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 11 miles south of the accident site, at 1150 cdt, were from 300 degrees at 15 knots.
Factual narrative
On May 14, 2000, at 1200 central daylight time (cdt), a Beech A23-19, N5665S, collided with the terrain and a swimming pool, following a loss of directional control while landing on runway 36 (3,200' x 60', asphalt) at the Holland Airpark, Holmen, Wisconsin. The private pilot was not injured and the passenger suffered serious injuries. The 14 CFR Part 91 flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions without a flight plan. The flight originated from Reedsburg, Wisconsin, at 1100 cdt.
The pilot reported he made a landing attempt with a crosswind from the west-northwest. He reported he "Didn't like [the] attempt" and he elected to perform a go-around. The pilot reported that a gust of wind from the west-northwest was encountered after touching down on the second landing. He reported he was approximately half way down the runway when this occurred. The pilot reported the gust lifted the airplane and moved it to the right of the runway. He reported he "Could not get plane back to runway and ended up in an above ground swimming pool."
The accident site was examined by an inspector from the Federal Aviation Administration Milwaukee Flight Standards District Office. The inspector reported the airplane traveled off the right side of the runway where it contacted a runway light, a wind sock, a garden, and shrubs. The right wing of the airplane then contacted a maple tree which yawed the airplane to the right prior to it coming to rest in the swimming pool. The inspector reported the residence where the swimming pool was located was approximately 150 to 200 feet from the runway.
Wind reported at LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 11 miles south of the accident site, at 1150 cdt, were from 300 degrees at 15 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5665S
- Reported as
- Beech A23-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MB-102
- Airframe hours
- 4,956
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2C, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Everett M. Ellis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 19, 1999 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- C35 · Reedsburg, WI
- Destination
- 36WI
- Airport
- 36WI · Holland Air Park, runway 36, 3,200 × 60 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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 148 total · 19 in this make and model · 148 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
- Wind
- 300° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LSE, 11 nm away