- Date
- July 17, 1987, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Danville, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6562TBeech 23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870717035559A
- Case key
- 13797
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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
Proper touchdown point - misjudgedCause
All available runway - not usedCause
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Wrong runway - selectedCause
On ground/water collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Analysis
The plt landed long and downwind on a sod farm strip. The acft ran off the departure end of the fld and struck trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6562T
- Reported as
- Beech 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M1143
- Airframe hours
- 1,310
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2G, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- K. L. Mollett/L. S. Black
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 19, 1987 · 40 hours before
- Airport
- Blacks, runway 35, 1,400 × 100 ft, grass/turf
N6562TRegistration cancelled Apr 30, 2013 · Beech B23Airframe modelBeech B23Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 106 total · 32 in this make and model · 67 as pilot in command · 47 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CMI, 38 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.