- Date
- November 26, 1983, 01:53 local (07:53 UTC)
- Place
- Midland, TX
- Injuries
- 8 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1910LBeech B100
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 21493
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Analysis
The acft crashed while completing a charter flt that began at 1220 CST on 11/25/83 to transport a tv sports film crew. The flt began at Midland, TX & proceeded to fort worth & wichita falls, TX, then began a return flt to Midland. During arrival, the plt transmitted that he was turning on a 1/2 mi final apch for rwy 16R. Witnesses observed what appeared to be a normal approach, but at 30 to 50 ft AGL, the plt initiated a go-around, the acft pitched up in an extremely nose high attitude, then entered a left bank, stalled & crashed. To duplicate the acft's observed profile, simulation tests showed full aft yoke pressure had to have been applied with full nose-up trim engaged thru-out the maneuver. No preexisting mechanical defects were found during the investigation. A test of the rgt front seat passenger's blood showed a blood/alcohol level of .144%. A test of the plt's blood showed no drugs or alcohol, but a microscopic tissue exam showed changes possibly indicative of myocardial infarction; no cause of an infarction was conclusively established
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
- N1910L
- Reported as
- Beech B100
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BE-10
- Airframe hours
- 2,214
- Engine
- Airesearch TPE-331-6, 715 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Texas Western Aviation
- Registered owner
- Richard S. Gaddy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 25, 1983 · 79 hours before
- Departed
- FTW · Fort Worth, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MAF · Regional, runway 16R, 9,501 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 29
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 69 in the last 90 days · 18 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 180° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MAF