- Date
- June 28, 1983, 19:03 local (23:03 UTC)
- Place
- Lehigh Acres, FL
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N485BBeech V35A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830628027279A
- Case key
- 30788
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
According to the pilot he started to make a go around after he realized that he would not be able to stop the aircraft on the wet runway. He failed to gain sufficient altitude to clear the trees just beyond the airport boundary. He said he landed at the normal touchdown point and attributed his failure to stop to hydroplaning on the wet runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N485B
- Reported as
- Beech V35A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D8709
- Airframe hours
- 2,393
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Max R. Cockerjam
- Registered owner
- June M. Miller
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 22, 1983
- Departed
- MTH · Marathon, FL
- Airport
- X56 · Lehigh Acres West, runway 32, 3,000 × 400 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,020 total · 600 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY, 9 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.