- Date
- January 27, 1984, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fritch, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N3829DBeech 77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840127001659A
- Case key
- 21102
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft departed on 1/27/84 and failed to return from a 2 hour local flt. Time of departure was 1330 CST. On 1/28/84, afisherman on lake meredith found an acft wheel floating in the water. This wheel was later found to have the same part numbers and paint as the missing acft. On 1/29/84, a jacket was found floating in the lake near where the wheel was originally sighted. The plt owned a similiar jacket. Search effects and dive teams were used from 1/28 to 2/2 without success. There were no known witnesses to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3829D
- Reported as
- Beech 77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA-229
- Airframe hours
- 310
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Chaparral Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 12, 1983 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- TDW · Amarillo, TX
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 270 total · 5 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 16 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AMA, 20 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.