- Date
- November 2, 1991, 12:06 local (18:06 UTC)
- Place
- Milton, KS
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N799VRockwell AC 690B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911102048689A
- Case key
- 15269
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Probable cause
Incapacitation of the pilot in command, followed by the loss of control and an inflight breakup with a unqualified person on the controls.
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 and his wife departed wichita, Kansas with a destination of phoenix, Arizona. Eight minutes after takeoff, while in a climb to 15,000 feet, the passenger contacted departure control and communicated that she thought that her husband might be dead. While departure control was getting a pilot to assist in the situation, the passenger, who was not a pilot attempted to fly the aircraft. A witness reported a rapid series of climbs and descents just before both horizontal stabilizers and the rudder separated from the aircraft. The aircraft then entered a spin terminating with ground impact. The aircraft was consumed by a post-crash fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N799V
- Reported as
- Rockwell AC 690B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11407
- Airframe hours
- 3,480
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-5, 717 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mid-Plains Corporation
- Registered owner
- Mid-Plains Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 12, 1991 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- ICT · Wichita, KS
- Destination
- PHX · Phoenix, AZ
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 4,900 total · 1,078 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ICT, 20 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.