- Date
- August 8, 1983, 12:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Marine City, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N23581Beech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830808043789A
- Case key
- 12299
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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.
Overrun
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Wrong runway - selectedCause
Airport facilities,wind direction indicator - failure,totalFactor
Radio communications - inadequateCause
Monitoring - inadequateCause
Proper touchdown point - exceededCause
Go-around - not performedCause
Wind information - not obtainedCause
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overloadFactor
Analysis
The acft ran off the end of the rwy during landing. The pilot had called UNICOM for wind information but had received noanswer. The pilot decided by smoke drift to land to the north. The winds at the arpt were from th south. The pilot landed about half way down the rwy and ran off the end. The pilot reported the wind sock as damaged and unusable.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23581
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E 1186
- Airframe hours
- 700
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William A. Kwiatkowski
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- MDW · Chicago, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 76G · Marine City, runway 4, 2,250 × 42 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 700 in this make and model · 65 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 25 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.