- Date
- May 1, 1988, 13:38 local (19:38 UTC)
- Place
- Ruidoso, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N618TBeech H35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880501011239A
- Case key
- 17468
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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.
On ground/water encounter with weather
Weather condition - gustsCause
Compensation for wind conditions - not possibleCause
Weather condition - high windFactor
Aircraft performance - exceededFactor
Nose down
Landing gear - overload
Landing gear - collapsed
Aircraft
- Registration
- N618T
- Reported as
- Beech H35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-5242
- Airframe hours
- 3,880
- Engine
- Continental O-470-G10, 240 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hicks, Travis B.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 13, 1987 · 41 hours before
- Departed
- ABQ · Albuquerque, NM
- Airport
- SRR · Sierra Blanca Regional, runway 24, 8,100 × 100 ft, asphalt
N618TRegistration cancelled Aug 19, 2013 · Beech H35Airframe modelBeech H35Engine modelContinental O-470 series
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
- 67
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 705 total · 242 in this make and model · 622 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 25 knots, gusting 50
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SRR, 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.