- Date
- October 21, 1986, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Village, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N6997QBeech BE-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861021049519A
- Case key
- 13680
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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 plt stated that the acft would not start so he applied the acft hand brake and proceeded to hand prop the acft with no one aboard. While hand propping the acft, the engine fired and the hand brake did not hold. As the plt walked around the right wing, the acft began moving toward a telephone pole and the plt was unable to board the acft. The acft then impacted the telephone pole and came to rest.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6997Q
- Reported as
- Beech BE-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1104
- Airframe hours
- 2,506
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Melvin M. Young
- Registered owner
- Melvin M. Young
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 14, 1986 · 54 hours before
- Destination
- 3HA · Lansing, IL
- Airport
- C98 · Lake Village Airport
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
- 60
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 75 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 24 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GYY, 28 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.