- Date
- September 29, 1989, 19:01 local (Sep 30, 1989, 00:01 UTC)
- Place
- Greencastle, IN
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2YSBeech A36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 14276
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain proper altitude during a visual approach at dusk. Factors related to the accident were: light conditions at dusk, the pilot's visual perception, and the trees.
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 pilot was making a visual approach at dusk to runway 36, which sloped upward from the approach end. It was lighted with low intensity lights. As the aircraft was proceeding in the vicinity of a left base leg, it collided with trees about 50' above the ground. It then crashed to the ground & began burning. One passenger egressed from the aircraft with injuries from impact & fire. No preimpact part failure or malfuntion was found during the investigation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2YS
- Reported as
- Beech A36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-106
- Airframe hours
- 1,150
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-UB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roger B. Turrell
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 13, 1989 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- I68 · Lebanon, OH
- Airport
- 4I7 · Putnam City, runway 36, 3,200 × 60 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 100 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 220° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IND, 26 nm away