- Date
- April 9, 1973
- Place
- Leawood, KS · LEAWOOD, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N537TBeech 35-A33
- Status
- Completed · report May 16, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19730409007789A
- Case key
- 170704
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0781 73/4/9 LEAWOOD,KANS BEECH 35-A33 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 37, 557 TIME - 1850 N537T PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 47 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - STATE LINE DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LINCOLN NEBR LEAWOOD,KANS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: GO-AROUND WHEELS-UP LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFING RECEIVED-METHOD UNKNOWN WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE BROKEN 1400 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 3 MILES OR LESS SNOW OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F BLOWING SNOW 30 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 340 20 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR VFR REMARKS- DRG HELICOPTER LIFT FOR REPAIRS INADVERTENT RLS FROM 200FT DESTROYED ACFT AND ENG.WND GUSTING 30K.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N537T
- Reported as
- Beech 35-A33
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- State Line
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.