- Date
- October 23, 1988, 17:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place
- Milwaukee, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N104TGBeech F35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881023047699A
- Case key
- 14305
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While executing a VOR approach and circling to land, the aircraft collided with trees and a fence, then impacted on a roadway short of the runway. The pilot had obtained a full weather briefing prior to his departure. The weather briefing included SIGMET golf 1 advising of moderate, occasionally severe icing conditions and numerous pilot reports of icing along his route of flight. Witnesses reported that they observed ice on the leading edge of the wings, and pieces of ice on the ground around the aircraft, and the pilot reported that he accumulated approximately 3/8' ice during the descent to the airport. The pilot also stated that he encountered wind gusts/windshear on final approach.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N104TG
- Reported as
- Beech F35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-4082
- Airframe hours
- 6,347
- Engine
- Continental E-225-8, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Groszer, Tod
- Registered owner
- Groszer, Todd & Robert D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 9, 1988 · 98 hours before
- Departed
- MQT · Marquette, MI
- Destination
- MWC · Milwaukee, WI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MWC · Milwaukee Timmerman
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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 719 total · 241 in this make and model · 600 as pilot in command · 97 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 14 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MWC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.