- Date
- September 21, 1990, 20:50 local (Sep 22, 1990, 01:50 UTC)
- Place
- Osage Beach, MO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6368BBeech F-33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900921065349A
- Case key
- 14780
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to establish a proper glide path, resulting in contact with trees short of the intended runway.
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
Pilot making first landing at unfamiliar field at night circled the field once and aligned with runway for VFR final approach. Aircraft struck trees short of runway and fell to ground at edge of treeline, 270 feet short of runway and 40 feet left of centerline. No mechanical discrepancy reported or discovered with airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6368B
- Reported as
- Beech F-33A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CE-944
- Airframe hours
- 4,209
- Engine
- Continental IO-520B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Beech Employees Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · March 10, 1990
- Departed
- BEC · Wichita, KS
- Airport
- K15 · Linn Creek-Grand Glaize, runway 32, 3,205 × 60 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 363 total · 266 in this make and model · 264 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JEF, 38 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.