- Date
- November 3, 1992, 13:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sedona, AZ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N67434Beech 36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921103044779A
- Case key
- 27855
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Probable cause
The pilot's poorly planned approach and delay in executing the appropriate remedial action. Contributing to this accident was the pilot's failure to maintain the proper glidepath and encountering a downdraft.
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 flight encountered forecasted turbulence while on final approach to runway 03. A passenger reported the pilot flew a low final approach. The aircraft encountered a downdraft. The pilot executed a go around, but without success. Realizing that the airplane was not climbing and was unable to make the runway the pilot elected to land on the lower terrain to the left of the airport. The airplane crashed about 150 feet short of the runway and about 500 feet to the west (left) of its extended centerline. Airport personnel provided the pilot with an airport advisory which included that the surface winds were from the northwest between 25 and 40 knots. The airport facility directory states in the Sedona airport remarks section, in part, '...turbulence may be experienced in vicinity of the airport...'
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67434
- Reported as
- Beech 36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA384
- Airframe hours
- 1,700
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-UB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gray, John A.
- Registered owner
- Gray, John A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1990 · 150 hours before
- Departed
- SNA · Santa Ana, CA
- Airport
- SEZ · Sedona, runway 3, 5,131 × 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,250 total · 1,155 in this make and model · 1,207 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 25 knots, gusting 40
- Visibility
- 70 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.