- Date
- March 24, 1993, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Key Largo, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N18368Beech V35B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930324006739A
- Case key
- 33246
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's complacency and decision to leave the aircraft controls unattended with the engine operating and without setting the parking brake.
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 pilot started the aircraft's engine and moved the aircraft forward several feet. He then reduced the throttle to idle and exited the aircraft to check a tire. He did not apply the parking brake. After checking the tire from in front of the right wing he heard the engine cough a few times and then increase in speed. The aircraft began to roll forward and he pushed on the right wing in attempts to stop it. The aircraft rotated 150 degrees and he was knocked to the ground. The aircraft then traveled across a road and collided with a tree and a trash dumpster.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18368
- Reported as
- Beech V35B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D10049
- Airframe hours
- 1,361
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Daly, William G.
- Registered owner
- Daly, William G.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 2, 1992 · 69 hours before
- Departed
- X09
- Destination
- TMB · Miami, FL
- Airport
- X09 · Ocean Reef Club Airport
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
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,784 total · 2,200 in this make and model · 2,559 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HST, 15 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.