- Date
- April 6, 1989, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lampasas, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N17513Beech V35B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 22859
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to follow proper procedures and directives for the attempted operation. A factor was the undetermined status of the magnetos.
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
The pilot attempted to start the airplane, but the engine would not turn. Therefore, the pilot elected to turn the propeller through by hand. He reported that prior to this act, he secured the magneto, master, and alternator switches. This was done after the airplane was positioned in a hangar without wheel chocks or being tied down. The engine was started and the airplane taxied into a garbage container and the hangar door. The pilot was unsuccessful in his efforts to regain control of the airplane and suffered a fractured arm in his attempts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N17513
- Reported as
- Beech V35B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-9977
- Airframe hours
- 1,485
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Phil P. O'Neal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 15, 1988 · 90 hours before
- Airport
- T28 · Lampasas
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 300 in this make and model · 75 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F