- Date
- January 11, 1991, 20:30 local (Jan 12, 1991, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Vichy, MO
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N200MRBeech 200
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910111000339A
- Case key
- 14987
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Probable cause
A restricted visual outlook and go-around was not performed by the pilot. Factors related to the accident were a dark night, fog and glare, ice covered runway and whiteout conditions.
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
While executing a VOR approach, on a dark, foggy night, depth perception and ground contact were lost when the landing lights were turned on short final. A hard landing resulted, before corrective action became effective, resulting in wing spar, engine mounting support and propeller damage. The runway, and entire airport was covered with about 3 inches of mirror smooth ice, causing considerable glare.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N200MR
- Reported as
- Beech 200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BB219
- Airframe hours
- 1,596
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-41, 850 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- United Executive Jet, doing business as Jet Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · September 7, 1990 · 144 hours before
- Departed
- SUS · St. Louis, MO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- VIH · Rolla, runway 22, 5,499 × 150 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,667 total · 258 in this make and model · 7,030 as pilot in command · 63 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 290° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VIH, 1 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.