- Date
- March 14, 1986, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Wales, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9790LBeech C23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860314006739A
- Case key
- 31587
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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.
Overrun
Judgment - poor
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Analysis
The plt stated that he landed long and was unable to stop. The acft ran off the end of the runway into a lake.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9790L
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1397
- Airframe hours
- 4,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Matthew J. Pitchon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 1985
- Departed
- X30 · Orlando, FL
- Airport
- X25 · Chalet Suzanne, runway 35, 2,450 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 266 total · 223 in this make and model · 237 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 45 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.
Other investigations on N9790L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.