- Date
- November 13, 1990, 08:31 local (14:31 UTC)
- Place
- Crestview, FL
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2EPBeech A-90
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901113050139A
- Case key
- 32761
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command/cfi improper supervision of the dual student. This resulted in an in flight loss of control, and collision with terrain for failure to maintain minimum control airspeed (VMC) while conducting a simulated emergency procedure.
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 pic/cfi was conducting a public use instructional flight with two military rated student pilots. The airplane was observed at about 60 to 80 ft AGL south of the approach end of an active runway. It yawed to the right, and back to the left, colliding with the terrain in a 45 deg left-wing-low attitude, and disappeared from view. The flight had been in the pattern making touch-and-go's, and had earlier reported a single-engine approach. This landing was to be a full-stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2EP
- Reported as
- Beech A-90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- L5-284
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Safety International
- Registered owner
- Flight Safety International
- Departed
- CEW · Crestview, FL
- Destination
- DHN · Dothan, AL
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- CEW · Bob Sikes, runway 35, 8,000 × 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
- 38
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 9,726 total · 135 in this make and model · 6,508 as pilot in command · 146 in the last 90 days · 59 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- CEW, 1 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.