- Date
- November 30, 1986, 14:45 local (20:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dumas, AR
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N783PTBeech 95-B55
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 3, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861130062449A
- Case key
- 34329
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 plt stated that he was operating VFR out of ft. lauderdale, Florida, when he encountered IMC weather close to valdosta, Georgia. At this point, the plt further stated, he air-filed an IFR flight plan but elected not to land and refuel. According to ATC information, the aircraft disappeared from radar 44NM short of stuttgart, Arkansas, his destination airport. Reports by the national weather service at the time of the accident indicated that a low pressure trough with low IFR conditions existed from the midwestern plain states to the Florida panhandle and on through the Ohio valley region. Post-accident calculations revealed that the aircraft had been operated over the maximum allowable gross weight during the initial portion of the flight and that fuel reserves for IFR operations were nonexistent. No usable fuel was found in the aircraft's tanks, and no mechanical malfunctions could be detected during an operational check of both powerplants.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N783PT
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-808
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Peter W. Thelen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- FXE · Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Destination
- SGT · Stuttgart, AR
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,600 total · 100 in this make and model · 9,400 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 60 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.