- Date
- September 12, 1990, 18:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Conway, AR
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5641DBeech 58
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900912039019A
- Case key
- 23042
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point and his delayed decision to abort the landing. Factors were the weather conditions.
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 airport was equipped with an NDB approach with a mda of 774 feet AGL and an inbound course of 270 degrees. Witnesses were consistent with recollections of heavy rain and ceilings of 300- 400 feet. The airplane's initial downwind approach was to runway 25 and resulted in a go-around. There was no evidence to indicate that the pilot executed the published missed approach. During the second attempted landing a witness saw the airplane about 2/3 of the way down runway 25 still at an excessive speed prior to hearing the engines accelerate. A passenger reported that the pilot attempted to stop but they were not slowing down. The airplane got airborne and struck the airport boundary fence 129 feet from the end of the runway. It subsequently struck trees and a house where a post impact fire began. Both the house and airplane were consumed by the fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5641D
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-1581
- Airframe hours
- 126
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-C, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Beech Aircraft Corporation
- Registered owner
- Beech Aircraft Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 20, 1990 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- BEC · Wichita, KS
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- M03 · Dennis F Centrell Field, runway 25, 4,360 × 100 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
- 58
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,433 total · 28 in this make and model · 1,227 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 135° at 20 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 350 ft overcast
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.