- Date
- February 22, 1992, 15:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fullerton, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2169WBeech C-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 27562
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Probable cause
Was the pilot's poorly planned approach. Contributing to this accident was the prevailing haze/smoke, the pilot's failure to attain a proper glidepath, proper touch down point and excessive final approach airspeed.
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
After entering the downwind leg for runway 24, the local controller instructed the flight to extend the downwind leg. Three minutes later, when the airplane was about 4 miles east of the airport, the local controller cleared the flight to turn base followed by a clearance to land. The prevailing visibility was about 4 miles with haze. The pilot was unable to see the airport because of the sun glare mixed with the haze and used the localizer for guidance to the airport. The pilot maintained the base leg altitude until he could readily identify the runway which he did when the airplane was about a mile east of the airport. The pilot immediately began the descent, but when he flared the airplane for landing it began to float. The airplane touched down beyond midfield, bounced three times and the pilot applied hard braking. The airplane swerved to the right, exited the runway, and collided with the fence that traverses north and south at the airport boundary.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2169W
- Reported as
- Beech C-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M1570
- Airframe hours
- 1,476
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4J, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eldon R. Howe
- Registered owner
- Eldon R. Howe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 7, 1992 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- RAL · Riverside, CA
- Airport
- FUL · Fullerton, runway 24, 3,121 × 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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 969 total · 500 in this make and model · 900 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
Other investigations on N2169W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.