- Date
- July 26, 1985, 05:00 local (11:00 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Rosa, NM
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N130TBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850726034119A
- Case key
- 16548
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - turbulence(thunderstorms)Cause
In-flight planning/decision - improperFactor
Weather condition - thunderstormCause
Flight into known adverse weather - initiatedFactor
Weather condition - rainFactor
Vfr flight into imc - continuedFactor
Became lost/disoriented - inadvertentFactor
Loss of control - in flight
Airspeed - uncontrolledCause
Altitude - uncontrolledCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt departed dalhart, TX on a night x-country to quemedo, NM. En route he stopped and picked up a friend at hereford, TX. He did not file a flt plan. He was lost off of radar just west of Santa Rosa, NM, where the wreckage was later found. The acft was destroyed and the plt with his pax friend received fatal injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N130T
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-304
- Airframe hours
- 1,871
- Engine
- Continental IO 520 SERIES, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- J. Cattle Company
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 2, 1984 · 102 hours before
- Departed
- Hereford, TX
- Destination
- Quemedo, NM
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,031 total · 25 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 120° at 16 knots
- Temperature
- 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.