# NTSB CHI88LA044: Beech A36, N4479W, St Paul, MN, January 18, 1988

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: January 18, 1988, 11:13 local (17:13 UTC)
- Place: St Paul, MN
- Location: 44.9444° N, 93.0933° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of St. Paul, MN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.9444&lon=-93.0933&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report January 16, 1990
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 14031
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CHI88LA044
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/14031/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI88LA044

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- In flight encounter with weather, approach
  - weather condition - clouds
  - weather condition - icing conditions (contributing factor)
  - weather forecast - inaccurate, nws personnel (contributing factor)
  - wing - ice (cause)
- Hard landing, landing
  - flight/nav instruments,directional gyro - erratic (contributing factor)
  - diverted attention, pilot in command (contributing factor)
  - airspeed - inadequate, pilot in command (cause)
- Nose gear collapsed, landing
  - landing gear,nose gear - overload

## Aircraft

- Registration: N4479W (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BEECH A36
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: E-544
- Airframe hours: 1836
- Engines: 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.

- Pilot; age 24; 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 (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 19880118008319A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880118008319A), Jan 18, 1988: Beech A36, St Paul, MN, Substantial damage. Picked up ice on a delayed IFR approach. Leveled off too high and too soon stalled to runway.

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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