- Date
- March 3, 1975
- Place
- Dodge City, KS · DODGE CITY, KS
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N311DBeech D18S
- Status
- Completed · report April 16, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19750303006019A
- Case key
- 147737
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0595 75/3/3 DODGE CITY,KS BEECH D18S CR- 1 0 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 26, 3034 TIME - 2147 N311D PX- 0 0 0 COMMUTER AIR CARRIER TOTAL HOURS, 1262 IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-CARGO S-D TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - DODGE CITY MUNI DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION DODGE CITY,KS HAYS,KS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: CLIMB TO CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER - SNOW WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, IN PERSON WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 300 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 3 MILES OR LESS SNOW OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 25 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR IFR FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- GROUND FIRE AND GENERAL DISINTEGRATION OF ACFT.MAIL FLIGHT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N311D
- Reported as
- Beech D18S
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Dodge City Muni
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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.