- Date
- July 3, 1993, 09:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ashdown, AR
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N258PBeech 95-B55B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930703022579A
- Case key
- 18793
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to abort the landing. A factor was the wet grass
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot experienced no braking action after landing on a 2,500 foot wet grass airstrip. As the airplane continued sliding down the runway, the pilot initiated a ground loop to avoid going through a fence at the end of the strip. The left main landing gear and the nose landing gear collapsed resulting in substantial damage to the airframe
Factual narrative
On Saturday, July 3, 1993, at approximately 0900 central daylight time, a Beech 95 B55B airplane, N258P, was substantially damaged while landing near Ashdown, Arkansas. The commercial pilot and his three passengers were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the executive flight.
According to the operator, the pilot intentionally ground looped the airplane as he approached the fence at the departure end of the grass strip. During the landing roll the pilot reported he experienced minimum braking action; he further stated that the grass airstrip was wet due to an unusually heavy morning dew. During an interview the pilot stated that the side loading imposed by the ground loop collapsed the nose and left main landing gears, resulting in structural damage to the left wing and airframe.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N258P
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-2414
- Airframe hours
- 990
- Engine
- Continental IO-470L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Pruet, Chesley
- Registered owner
- Pruet, Chesley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 4, 1993 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- ELD · El Dorado, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- NONE · Pruet Ranch, runway 9, 2,500 × 35 ft, grass/turf
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,959 total · 37 in this make and model · 1,844 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 137 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N258P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.