- Date
- March 2, 1993, 18:30 local (Mar 3, 1993, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Chesterfield, MO
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7257TBeech 200
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 15, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930302009979A
- Case key
- 15678
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control after encountering whiteout conditions in the landing flare.
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 stated the ILS approach was '...uneventful to within 2 (feet) of touchdown, when we encountered thick fog and...complete whiteout losing all forward visibility and complete runway environment at touchdown.' The aircraft touched down left of the runway centerline and the left propeller impacted a snowbank at the left side of the runway. The aircraft veered off the left side of runway 8R (7,000' x 150') and skidded to a stop perpendicular to and facing the runway. A weather observation taken 9 minutes after the accident revealed temperature and dew point were both 41 degrees fahrenheit, with visibility 3/16 mile in light drizzle and fog.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7257T
- Reported as
- Beech 200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BB-1246
- Airframe hours
- 2,386
- Engine
- P&W PT6-42, 850 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Bunge Corporation
- Registered owner
- Bunge Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 25, 1992 · 80 hours before
- Departed
- DCU · Decatur, AL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SUS · Spirit Of St. Louis, runway 8, 7,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17,000 total · 1,800 in this make and model · 16,000 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 70° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SUS, 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.