- Date
- May 5, 1983, 17:49 local (22:49 UTC)
- Place
- San Angelo, TX
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8314NBeech E33
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830505017309A
- Case key
- 20720
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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Analysis
The eng failed in flt & the acft crashed 1 mi short of rwy 18 during an emergency landing into mathis arpt. The acft's fuselage was streaked with fresh oil. The rigid oil pressure line, extending from the eng to the firewall, failed due tofatigue cracking from multiple origins on opposite sides of the outside diameter of the line at the beginning of a heavily flared radius. The parts catalog for the BE-E33 requires a flexible hose. The eng had been overhauled on 7/20/82, 121 hrs prior to the accident. It is not known when the rigid line was installed in place of flexible hose. As a result of the oil starvation the #4 conrod failed.
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
- N8314N
- Reported as
- Beech E33
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CD-1155
- Airframe hours
- 1,466
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-KNC, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Arthur M. Tolson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 2, 1983 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- 21XS · Big Spring, TX
- Destination
- AUS · Austin, TX
- Airport
- SJT · Mathis
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 850 total · 850 in this make and model · 750 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 14 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Observed at
- SJT
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 N8314N · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.