- Date
- December 22, 1984, 22:33 local (Dec 23, 1984, 06:33 UTC)
- Place
- San Martin, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67216Beech 77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841222067759A
- Case key
- 24617
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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
On a night pleasure flt the afct's alternator went off line. The plt elected to make an immediate landing at the arpt he was overflying rather than flying to a fld which had operating rwy lights. The fld he was over had a plt-controlled lighting system, but the plt said he was unable to activate the lights. The plt mistook a taxiway which was under construction for the rwy & after touchdown collided with a dirt mound & nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67216
- Reported as
- Beech 77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA-87
- Airframe hours
- 702
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Squadron 2 Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Chet R. Mdtcalf
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- RHU · San Jose, CA
- Airport
- Q99 · S.County Of Santa Maria, runway 12, grass/turf
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 448 total · 11 in this make and model · 372 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 120° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.