- Date
- January 21, 1983, 16:51 local (21:51 UTC)
- Place
- Naples, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N342TBeech E18-S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830121002189A
- Case key
- 30761
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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 acft departed the right side of the runway and the right gear separated from the acft. Examination of the fracture surface revealed no evidence of fatigue or other type of slow growth cracking.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N342T
- Reported as
- Beech E18-S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA366
- Airframe hours
- 10,400
- Engine
- P&W PT-6A-20, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- James Van Hise
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 9, 1982 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- HOU · Houston, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- APF · Naples Municipal, runway 22, 5,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22,300 total · 20 in this make and model · 18,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N342T · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.