- Date
- October 27, 1991, 17:35 local (23:35 UTC)
- Place
- Marble Falls, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N7246HBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911027047999A
- Case key
- 18337
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Probable cause
The pilot's performance of acrobatic maneuvers at an altitude too low to allow for recovery.
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
A 49 year old private pilot and his 27 year old brother-in-law went flying together for the first time. The pilot was a retired navy flight surgeon with 221 hours logged as a private pilot. His passenger was a rated aviator on active duty with the USAF, who recently completed a combat tour flying KC-135 during operation 'desert storm'. After completing several passes over a scenic area, witnesses observed the airplane perform a maneuver commonly referred to as a 'wingover' without sufficient altitude to recover from the ensuing dive. Impact occurred at about 45 degrees nose low. The wreckage path was 350 feet long.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7246H
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-2295
- Airframe hours
- 845
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rex L. & Kathleen A Repass
- Registered owner
- Rex L. & Kathleen A Repass
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 4, 1991 · 126 hours before
- Departed
- AUS · Austin, 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 221 total · 72 in this make and model · 105 as pilot in command · 72 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AUS, 32 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.