- Date
- March 28, 1991, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Superior, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9462SBeech V-35-A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910328008119A
- Case key
- 27151
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Probable cause
Visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions.
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/owner stated that he was flying beneath and clear of the clouds with only light chop and well clear of the terrain. His next recollection was lying on the ground next to what remained of the engine and propeller. He said he did not remember heat from the airplane, though the fuselage had burned. He said there was a swath of vegetation approximately 100 yards long by the aircraft wing span wide mowed up the hill to where the aircraft stopped. Mountain obscurement was forecast over a wide area around the accident site.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9462S
- Reported as
- Beech V-35-A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-8055
- Engine
- Continental 10-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Aaron C. Bornstein
- Registered owner
- Aaron C. Bornstein
- Departed
- S0W · Show Low, AZ
- Destination
- P10 · Chandler, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 45
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 850 total · 320 in this make and model · 500 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Observed at
- 1WA, 105 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.