- Date
- May 14, 1989, 20:30 local (May 15, 1989, 03:30 UTC)
- Place
- Glendale, AZ
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2335ZBeech 23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890514011519A
- Case key
- 26408
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to execute a go around in a timely manner. The delay in aborting the landing precluded the airplane from accelerating to a climb airspeed before colliding with a fence.
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 private pilot was unable to maintain directional control during climb out from an aborted landing. The acft veered off the rwy and contacted a fence. A post crash inspection of the acft revealed no mechanical problems that would have precluded a normal landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2335Z
- Reported as
- Beech 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-27
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2B, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Seaton, Jeffrey W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CMA · Camarillo, CA
- Airport
- GEU · Glendale Muni., runway 19, 5,350 × 75 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 185 total · 162 in this make and model · 130 as pilot in command · 76 in the last 90 days · 43 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.