- Date
- June 13, 1987, 09:10 local (14:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cookson, OK
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3063VBeech 35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870613020179A
- Case key
- 22252
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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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.
Analysis
Just after takeoff smoke was smelled and then observed in the cockpit. The pilot beleived that the smoke source was electrical and turned off the master switch. Just before touchdown flames began burning the pilots left leg. The aircraft was stopped on the runway and the pilot and pax deplaned. The aircraft was then destroyed by fire. The engine oil pump attach bolts were found to be loose and allowing oil to drip onto the hot muffler, which ignited. Flames entered the cockpit through the hot air duct.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3063V
- Reported as
- Beech 35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-476
- Airframe hours
- 3,251
- Engine
- Continental E-185-8, 196 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Blane Miller & Earl Williams
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 3, 1986 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- 44M · Cookson, OK
- Destination
- 2EJ · Oklahoma City, OK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 44M · Tenkille Lake, runway 23, 2,600 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 197 total · 7 in this make and model · 150 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TUL, 60 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.