- Date
- January 22, 1983, 12:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Watsonville, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1887LBeech BE-60
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830122001409A
- Case key
- 23605
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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 overran the runway and collapsed the nose gear during a landing in instrument flight conditions. He had begun a missed approach procedure due to environmental conditions when he noticed he could still see the runway and decided he could make a landing. He said he landed just beyond threshold but witnesses said he landed 2/3 beyond the runway threshold. The pilot blamed hydroplaning for the overrun.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1887L
- Reported as
- Beech BE-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P-388
- Airframe hours
- 1,100
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-541-E1C4, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Luckey Laboratories, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 12, 1983 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- APV · Apple Valley, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- WVI · Watsonville, runway 1, 450 × 150 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15,000 total · 550 in this make and model · 14,300 as pilot in command · 73 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 25 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 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.