- Date
- June 26, 1991, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Magnolia, MS
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N60195Beech 77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910626024299A
- Case key
- 32754
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot's (cfi's) improper supervision of flight and a failure to maintain sufficient altitude above the trees.
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 instructor pilot (CFI) and student were on an instructional flight in VFR conditions. A witness saw and heard the airplane flying eastbound. Shorty thereafter, the airplane crashed on a southerly heading. There was evidence that initial impact occurred, when the right wing tip collided with treetops. The airplane remained airborne for a distance, then crashed in a steep descent after traveling about 330 ft from where the first piece of the wing tip was found. No preimpact part failure or malfunction of the aircraft or engine was found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60195
- Reported as
- Beech 77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA-23
- Airframe hours
- 933
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 118 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Roy Stewart
- Registered owner
- Roy Stewart
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1991 · 57 hours before
- Departed
- MCB · Mccomb, MS
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
- 71
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,696 total · 5 in this make and model · 1,394 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCB, 6 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.