- Date
- June 16, 1992, 15:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Willows, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1482LBeech A-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920616020659A
- Case key
- 27650
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Probable cause
The pilot's poorly planned approach. Contributing to this accident was the pilot misjudged the flare altitude and failed to maintain the proper 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
The pilot was completing a local visual flight rules personal flight. The pilot misjudged the altitude and failed to maintain the proper airspeed during the flare and the airplane stalled and slammed into the ground. The airplane bounced once and slid off the runway. According to the pilot the prevailing surface winds were out of the south/southeast at 5 knots gusting to 7 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1482L
- Reported as
- Beech A-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M882
- Airframe hours
- 2,674
- Engine
- Continental IO-346-A, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harvey P. Ferrier
- Registered owner
- Harvey P. Ferrier
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 19, 1991 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- O68 · Mariposa, CA
- Destination
- WLW · Willows, CA
- Airport
- WLW · Willows-Glenn County, runway 16, 4,500 × 100 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 618 total · 262 in this make and model · 618 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 5 knots, gusting 7
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.