- Date
- October 7, 1990, 20:03 local (Oct 8, 1990, 02:03 UTC)
- Place
- Aurora, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1568SBeech P35
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901007044259A
- Case key
- 18004
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
Inadvertent stall. Factors were his decision to disregard in-flight weather advisories, continued flight into known adverse weather, and icing conditions and the flight into the known adverse weather.
Analysis
The pilot obtained two weather briefing that included forecast icing conditions. The flight proceeded uneventfully until it arrived in the vicinity of the kiowa VORTAC, near denver. Approach control advised the pilot of two pireps: light to moderate rime icing, and moderate to severe rime icing, reported by several aircraft. The pilot elected to continue. The pilot reported accumulating ice shortly thereafter, and requested an ILS approach to denver's stapleton international airport. While being vectored, the pilot was unable to maintain several assigned altitudes. He was vectored towards buckley ANG base, but crashed about one mile short of the runway. The sheriff reported at least two inches of rime ice on the leading edges of the wings. Ruddervator, and antennae. The airplane was not certified for flight into icing conditions, nor was it equipped with any deicing equipment.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1568S
- Reported as
- Beech P35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-6994
- Airframe hours
- 3,701
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Miller Press, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 2, 1990 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- FSM · Fort Smith, AR
- Destination
- BJC · Broomfied, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 48
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 799 total · 617 in this make and model · 628 as pilot in command · 62 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 14 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 330° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BKF, 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.