- Date
- February 9, 1991, 18:14 local (Feb 10, 1991, 02:14 UTC)
- Place
- Riverside, CA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2712YBeech B95
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910209004449A
- Case key
- 27131
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to follow the emergency gear extension procedure to fully extend the landing gear. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the pilot to monitor the condition of the electrical power system, leading to the complete loss of electrical power.
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 certificated commercial pilot and two passengers were enroute to their destination airport on an instrument flight plan, when a complete electrical failure occurred. The pilot failed to notice that both ammeters were reading zero due to the failure of both current limiters in the charging system. The battery was depleted and all electrical power lost. The pilot elected to land before dark and failed to follow the emergency gear extension procedure to fully extend the landing gear. The gear collapsed upon landing on a taxiway at a military air force base.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2712Y
- Reported as
- Beech B95
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TD-35
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Joseph Sheble III
- Registered owner
- Floyd Wolfe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 1, 1991 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- HMT · Hemet, CA
- Destination
- SNA · Orange County, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- RIV · March Afb, runway 5, 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,098 total · 80 in this make and model · 928 as pilot in command · 350 in the last 90 days · 150 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 270° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RAL, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.