- Date
- December 19, 2018, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Sedona, AZ
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N636MBeech 36
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20181219022139A
- Case key
- 98792
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain the proper airspeed during landing, which resulted in the airplane landing too fast and too far down the runway to safely stop it.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he was flying a recently purchased airplane. During initial climb, the front right cockpit door opened. He decided that the condition was unsafe and entered a left downwind to land. The approach end of the runway had rising terrain, and the airplane was too high and fast. About 200 ft above ground level, he decided to abort the landing, but the engine sputtered, and he continued the landing. The airplane overran the runway and collided with a fence. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and the elevator. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that he was flying a recently purchased airplane. During initial climb, the front right-side cockpit door opened. He decided that the condition was unsafe and entered a left downwind to land. The approach end of the runway had rising terrain, and the airplane was too high and too fast. About 200ft AGL he decided to abort the landing, but the engine sputtered. Still too fast, the airplane landed about 1,500ft down the 5,132ft runway, and he immediately applied the brakes. However, the airplane overran the runway and collided with a fence. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and the elevator. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N636M
- Reported as
- Beech 36 (A36)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-874
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 4,900
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- 636m LLC
- Registered owner
- 636m LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 2018
- Departed
- SEZ · Sedona, AZ
- Destination
- SEZ · Sedona, AZ
- Airport
- SEZ · Sedona, runway 21, 5,132 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Handheld GPS, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 11, 2018
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 11,000 total · 95 in this make and model · 150 in the last 90 days · 59 in the last 30 days · 2.5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- KSEZ
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 27, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.4 MB in all.
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 N636M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.