- Date
- December 9, 1989, 10:35 local (16:35 UTC)
- Place
- Cable, WI
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7988MBeech V35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891209049569A
- Case key
- 14604
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to adequately compensate for crosswind conditions. Contributing to the accident was the gusty, crosswind conditions which existed.
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Weather condition - crosswindFactor
Weather condition - gustsFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Dragged wing,rotor,pod,float or tail/skid
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7988M
- Reported as
- Beech V35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-8471
- Airframe hours
- 3,521
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA2, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Benson, Earl C.
- Registered owner
- Benson, Earl C
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 23, 1988 · 119 hours before
- Departed
- FCM · Eden Prairie, MN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 3CU · Cable Union, runway 16, 3,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,047 total · 1,544 in this make and model · 2,047 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RIE, 46 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.