- Date
- December 26, 1988, 12:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Jeffersonville, IN
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6100NBeech B23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 16, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881226056269A
- Case key
- 14240
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Probable cause
Pilot-in-command's poor inflight decision in attempting to return to the airport after a partial engine failure, and his encountering a stall/spin at low altitude from which he was unable to recover.
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
Witnesses rprtd that while the acft was on the initial climb after taking off from rwy 36, there was a partial loss of eng power. They rprtd the acft entered a turn to the west & flew over trees between rwys 36 & 14 at a relatively low altitude. The acft then entered a steep left turn as if to line up with rwy 14. Witnesses reported that the acft then rolled abruptly to the right, entered a steep descent & crashed. An exam of the acft eng revealed the left magneto was loose & could be rotated in its mount in either direction. Also, when the #3 cylinder was removed, it was found to have a circumferential crack aprx half way around the head. One exhaust stud was missing from the cylinder & there was evidence the eng had been operating with an exhaust leak on the cylinder. The eng had accumulated only 274 hrs since major overhaul.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6100N
- Reported as
- Beech B23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1186
- Airframe hours
- 1,582
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Resch, David P.
- Registered owner
- Resch, David P
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1988 · 59 hours before
- Departed
- JVY · Jeffersonville, IN
- Destination
- SER · Seymour, IN
- Airport
- JVY · Clark County, runway 36, 5,500 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- 22
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 174 total · 54 in this make and model · 152 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SDF, 12 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.