- Date
- August 20, 1982, 23:15 local (Aug 21, 1982, 03:15 UTC)
- Place
- New Carlisle, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N668VBeech BE-33
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820820044579A
- Case key
- 71968
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.
Undershoot
Light condition - dark nightFactor
Planned approach - inaccurateCause
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - dirt bank/rising embankmentFactor
Analysis
The pilot undershot the runway during a night landing on a lighted sod runway. The aircraft collided with a dirt mound 40 yards east of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N668V
- Reported as
- Beech BE-33
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CD92
- Airframe hours
- 4,709
- Engine
- Continental IO-470J, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert L. Abrahamson
- Registered owner
- New Carlisle Beech, Inc.
- Departed
- I11 · New Carlisle, OH
- Destination
- I11 · New Carlisle, OH
- Airport
- I11 · New Carlisle, runway 27, 2,000 × 0 ft, grass/turf
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 275 total · 275 in this make and model · 275 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.