- Date
- January 17, 1991, 15:37 local (20:37 UTC)
- Place
- Lantana, FL
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1802ABeech 58P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910117000629A
- Case key
- 32742
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Probable cause
The pilot in commands failure to maintain airspeed while performing a go around resulting in the airplane stalling and colliding with the ground in an uncontrolled descent.
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
Plt made one pass over arpt and then entered downwind behind Cessna 150. Plt approached too close behind Cessna on final and made go around. Plt pitched acft up sharpely and entered a 90 degree left bank. Plt then leveled off at 200 feet and acft then stalled. Left wing and nose dropped and acft descended uncontrolled. Plt got wings and nose near level as acft impacted in a marsh area. A post impact fire errupted immediately upon impact. Post crash examination of acft and engines revealed no evidence to indicate failure or malfunction. No medical conditions within the plt were noted after the accident which could have caused incapacitation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1802A
- Reported as
- Beech 58P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TJ-361
- Airframe hours
- 2,152
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520WB, 325 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mcphail Associates, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 16, 1990 · 157 hours before
- Departed
- CRE · N Mytrle Beach, SC
- Airport
- LNA · Palm Beach County Park, runway 3, 3,250 × 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,696 total · 388 in this make and model · 1,567 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 31 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBI, 5 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.