- Date
- January 27, 1989, 06:18 local (11:18 UTC)
- Place
- Panacea, FL
- Injuries
- 4 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4506DBeech G-35
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890127001429A
- Case key
- 32390
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Probable cause
Pilots loss of control when entering the fog bank during the takeoff, due to spatial disorientation.
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 instrument rated pilot stated that he received a weather briefing. No record of a briefing was located. He then stated that he drove the sod runway in a car and noted the visibility to be about 1/2 mile. During takeoff he stated that the aircraft entered a fog bank at about 10 ft and he lost control of the aircraft and crashed into trees at the left side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4506D
- Reported as
- Beech G-35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-4669
- Airframe hours
- 4,239
- Engine
- Continental E-225-8, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Guy H. Hudson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1988 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- 2J0 · Panacea, FL
- Destination
- HEZ · Natchez, MS
- Airport
- 2JO · Wakulla County, runway 36, 2,900 × 175 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
- 63
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 791 total · 408 in this make and model · 577 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- TLH, 16 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.