- Date
- November 23, 2021, 14:04 local (19:04 UTC)
- Place
- Perry, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2033DBeech C35
- Defining event
- Landing: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20211123022452A
- Case key
- 104312
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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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with a parked airplane.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot stated that he did a visual inspection of the brakes as part of his preflight inspection and he “saw no leaks or abnormalities”, and no discrepancies were noted during a brake check while beginning to taxi or during the engine run-up before takeoff. He proceeded to his destination and performed a normal landing. As the airplane decelerated, it began drifting left. He applied right rudder, then when the rudder input failed to correct the drift, he applied more right rudder and brake, at which time, the airplane immediately turned left. The airplane travelled off the runway and impacted a parked airplane. Postaccident examination of the flight controls and brake system revealed no evidence of preimpact failure or malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2033D
- Reported as
- Beech C35 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-3384
- Built
- 1952
- Engine
- Continental E-225-8, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2020 · 5,600 hours before
- Departed
- FD93 · Holt, FL
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PXE · Perry-Houston County, runway 36, 4,999 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- 80
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 14, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 17,910 total · 178 in this make and model · 3,880 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- KWRB, 11 nm away
- METAR
- KWRB 231956Z 30005KT 10SM BKN250 13/M07 A3020 RMK AO2A SLP230 T01331074
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 20, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.2 MB in all.
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 N2033D · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.