- Date
- September 19, 1983, 16:43 local (20:43 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N55EDBeech 65-80
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830919054249A
- Case key
- 30810
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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
Several days prior, a fam flt was intended in the acft to be given to the plt by another person who represented himself as a plt. The flt was cancelled due to a problem with the left eng. On the day of the accident, the other person told the plt that the eng was repaired & they proceeded to conduct a local test flt with the other person conducting the takeoff from the left seat. They reportedly switched seats prior to landing. The approach appeared normal until just prior to landing. A burst of sound from the engs was heard & the acft yawed & rolled left. The left wing impacted the ground & the acft cartwheeled. The last logbook entry was in 10/82. The owner could not be located. The other plt could not be located & there is no record of him being issued a plt's certificate. During teardown of the left eng the servo fuel injector was found rigged extremely lean at the idle stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55ED
- Reported as
- Beech 65-80
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LD-3
- Engine
- Lycoming IGSO-540-A1A, 380 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- OPF · Opa Locka, runway 9L, 8,002 × 150 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
- 29
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 368 total · 2 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OPF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.