- Date
- January 18, 1988, 11:13 local (17:13 UTC)
- Place
- St Paul, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4479WBeech A36
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 16, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880118008319A
- Case key
- 14031
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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - clouds
Weather condition - icing conditionsFactor
Weather forecast - inaccurateFactor
Wing - iceCause
Hard landing
Flight/nav instruments,directional gyro - erraticFactor
Diverted attentionFactor
Airspeed - inadequateCause
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overload
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4479W
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-544
- Airframe hours
- 1,836
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Registered owner
- R&R Trucking
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1987
- Departed
- Q4Y · Hanley, MN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SPT · St Paul Downtown, runway 32, 6,550 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,006 total · 51 in this make and model · 911 as pilot in command · 173 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- STP
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.