- Date
- May 26, 1985, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tea, SD
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N555Boeing A75
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850526020869A
- Case key
- 16572
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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.
Analysis
The owner/plt-in-command (PIC) took off on a local flt with another occupant in the front seat. The front seat occupant was a commercial, single-eng, multi-eng plt with an instructor rating, but he had no previous experience in A75 acft. While in flt, the PIC allowed the front seat plt to take control of the acft. As the front seat plt entered a turn at low alt near the arpt, the PIC advanced the throttle to maintain airspeed in the turn. At that time, the front seat plt thought the PIC had taken control of the acft; he thought they were returning back to the arpt. The acft continued turning & entered a descent. The PIC thought the front seat plt was still controlling the acft & was going to make a low pass. Since the front seat plt was an instructor with over 1000 hrs of flt time, the PIC did not question the maneuver. Subsequently, the acft impacted the ground while still in a steep descent.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N555
- Reported as
- Boeing A75
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-1456
- Airframe hours
- 5,250
- Engine
- Continental W-670, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Leonard A. Winter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 14, 1984
- Departed
- Y14
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
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 765 total · 110 in this make and model · 720 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FSD, 12 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.
Other investigations on N555 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.