- Date
- June 16, 1987, 15:42 local (20:42 UTC)
- Place
- Cahokia, IL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N37CBBeech 3NM
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 13544
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
The acft experienced a loss of pwr in the rt eng immediately aft tkof. The plt was not able to feather the propeller and was forced to land in a wheat field on arpt property. Conditions were conducive to carburetor icing at the time of the accd. Investigation revealed that the rt propeller hub was improperly assembled and would not allow the propeller to feather. In addition, the rt carburetor heat system was inoperative because the ducts that connect the manifold heat muffs to the carburetor air box were missing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37CB
- Reported as
- Beech 3NM
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CA235
- Airframe hours
- 9,486
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Rhoades Aviation
- Registered owner
- Bishop Air Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 1, 1987 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- CPS · Cahokia, IL
- Destination
- SER · Seymour, IN
- Airport
- CPS · St. Louis Dtn-Parks Arpt, runway 30L, 5,500 × 100 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,300 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 175 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CPS, 8 nm away