- Date
- April 5, 1983, 00:45 local (06:45 UTC)
- Place
- Hutchinson, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N630KCRockwell 500B
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830405014519A
- Case key
- 33394
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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 acft touched down in 2 inches of snow & slush. Braking action was non-existent. The rwy lights were covered with piles of snow & were not visible. The acft veered right into a snowbank collapsing the nose gear. The NWS contract weather observer is not required to measure & report rwy snow depth. Hutchison does not have a tower operating at night.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N630KC
- Reported as
- Rockwell 500B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 997-28
- Airframe hours
- 9,540
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-B1A, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Central Air Charter, Inc., doing business as Central Airlines, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Central Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · February 15, 1983 · 130 hours before
- Departed
- Salina, KS
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HUT · Hutchinson Muni, runway 13, 7,000 × 200 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,692 total · 6,000 in this make and model · 44 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 360° at 15 knots, gusting 22
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HUT
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.