- Date
- December 5, 1991, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Mt Pleasant, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6930CBeech B36TC
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911205054639A
- Case key
- 15362
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Probable cause
Water in the fuel, and an inadequate preflight by the pilot.
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 said that after being cleared for an IFR approach, the engine lost power. During an emergency landing, the aircraft struck a tree and lost part of the right wing. The aircraft then slid to a stop with no injuries to the pilot or passenger. A post-accident examination revealed the presence of water in the flow divider which (by that time) had frozen.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6930C
- Reported as
- Beech B36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-420
- Airframe hours
- 932
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-UB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Strong Manufacturing Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 30, 1991 · 142 hours before
- Departed
- AUG · Augusta, ME
- Destination
- MOP · Mt Pleasant, MI
- 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
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,335 total · 431 in this make and model · 1,238 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 9 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Observed at
- MBS, 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.