- Date
- August 14, 1992, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Valentine, NE
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1812EBeech A36TC
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920814031369A
- Case key
- 15517
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed. Factors related to the accident were the weather obscuration and failure to attain proper runway alignment.
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 was cleared for an NDB rwy 31 approach and radar service was terminated. Upon seeing a hole in the clouds, he elected to circle the airport at 1,000' and enter a traffic pattern for runway 13. During the turn from base to final, the pilot lost sight of the runway due to obscured visibility and overshot final approach. He reported he then reduced the throttle and made a left turn to realign himself with the runway. When turning to the right to stop the turn, the airplane stalled. The right wing contacted the runway followed by the nose. The airplane came to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1812E
- Reported as
- Beech A36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-240
- Airframe hours
- 1,433
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-U, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Judson C. Martin
- Registered owner
- Judson C. Martin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 7, 1992 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- BFF · Scottsbluff, NE
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- VTN · Miller Field, runway 13, 4,400 × 100 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,615 total · 390 in this make and model · 1,504 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- VTN, 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.