- Date
- December 23, 1985, 12:20 local (19:20 UTC)
- Place
- Cloudcroft, NM
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9201LGulfstream American AA-1A Yankee
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16905
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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 plt stated that he was following a highway from alamogordo, NM to roswell, NM. The plt continued to state that the highway lead him into an area of high terrain that his acft could not climb over. The plt was unable to turn around and executed an emerg landing into trees. The plt indicated that there were no mechanical problems with acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9201L
- Reported as
- Gulfstream American AA-1A Yankee (AA-1A YANK)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA1A-0101
- Airframe hours
- 2,084
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- James T. Bean
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1985
- Departed
- ALM · Alamogordo, NM
- Destination
- CVN · Clovis, NM
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 384 total · 318 in this make and model · 350 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg