- Date
- January 8, 1988, 18:45 local (Jan 9, 1988, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dewitt, AR
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4613SBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880108000379A
- Case key
- 34479
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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 pilot of N4613S was making a VFR approach into the de witt, Arkansas municipal airport. Snow had been removed from the runway and piled up on the approach end of runway 35. The nose gear of the aircraft contacted the piled up snow/ice at touchdown, damaging the nose gear. When the nose gear touched down on the rwy the pilot was unable to maintain directional control. The aircraft departed the runway into an area of snow in which the nose gear collapsed. The aircraft was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4613S
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH682
- Airframe hours
- 4,451
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Central Flying Service Inc.
- Registered owner
- Central Flying Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 1987 · 93 hours before
- Departed
- LIT · Little Rock, AR
- Airport
- 5MI · Dewitt Municipal, runway 35, 3,200 × 60 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
- 47
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,654 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 8,430 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 30° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 18 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBF, 31 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.