- Date
- June 15, 1985, 10:55 local (15:55 UTC)
- Place
- Pratt, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6723CBeech C23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850615025559A
- Case key
- 33965
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Student pilot was on his second cross-country flight to this airport. He stated that after touchdown, he reached to raise the flaps and the airplane started to drift. He overcorrected and went off left side of the runway and nosed over when he went through a wash.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6723C
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-2369
- Airframe hours
- 481
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Beech Aircraft Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 3, 1984 · 81 hours before
- Departed
- K31 · Wichita, KS
- Destination
- PTT · Pratt, KS
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PTT · Pratt Municipal, runway 35, 6,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 33 total · 33 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 20° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ICT, 70 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.