- Date
- November 27, 1988, 19:04 local (Nov 28, 1988, 03:04 UTC)
- Place
- Hanford, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9469YBeech N35
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881127052259A
- Case key
- 26193
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to maintain sufficient altitude and descended below the minimum descent altitude while executing the missed approach. Contributing to this accident was the deteriorating weather conditions and the pilot's wish to return the airplane to its home base.
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 plt declared a missed apch during a VOR circling apch to the plt's home arpt. The acft descended below mimimum descent alt, collided with a telephone cable and came to rest in a cotton field aprx 1 mile northeast of the arpt. The acft was in the landing configuration at impact. The wx was below apch minimums, 1/4 mile visibility with fog and a 400 foot obscured ceiling. There was no evidence of a mechanical failure or malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9469Y
- Reported as
- Beech N35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D6647
- Airframe hours
- 3,451
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mid Cal Farms
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 13, 1988 · 151 hours before
- Departed
- OXR · Oxnard, CA
- Destination
- 018 · Hanford, CA
- Airport
- 018 · Hanford
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
- 59
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,908 total · 1,080 in this make and model · 121 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.