- Date
- January 20, 1987, 17:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Arkadelphia, AR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6636HBeech BE-77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870120000809A
- Case key
- 34335
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was landing at the home airport after her solo cross-country flight when the airplane went off the left side of the runway. It rolled across a grassy area and then went into a large water/mudhole. The nose gear collapsed when it impacted the dirt bank on the side of the hole. The airplane flipped forward to the inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6636H
- Reported as
- Beech BE-77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA-32
- Airframe hours
- 3,222
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Central Flying Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 8, 1987 · 16 hours before
- Departed
- RSN · Ruston, LA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- M89 · Municipal, runway 22, 4,045 × 50 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
- 18
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 58 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.