- Date
- June 8, 1990, 15:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Paso Robles, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N996TBeech 35-33
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900608019409A
- Case key
- 26633
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Probable cause
Undetermined.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot received a prelfight weather briefing which included a forecast for visual meteorological conditions along the proposed route of flight. He took off on a cross-country flight under visual flight rules without filing a flight plan. About 1-1/2 hrs after the plane took off, a rancher found its wreckage burning in an outlying/level pasture, after a neighbor advised him of smoke emanating from the pasture. The aircraft impacted the ground in an upright attitude with the flaps and landing gear retracted. The wreckage bounced, slid and tumbled about 447 feet before coming to rest. Impact occurred in a direction that was perpendicular to the route of flight. No preimpact part failure or malfunction of the aircraft was found. The owner said the pilot had overstressed the aircraft on a previous flight, but no relationship was verified between that event and the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N996T
- Reported as
- Beech 35-33
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CD-194
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-J, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Alameda Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- OAK · Oakland, CA
- Destination
- CMA · Camarillo, CA
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 22
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,300 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N996T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.