- Date
- September 3, 1984, 01:30 local (05:30 UTC)
- Place
- Eagle Crest, DE
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N62ACBeech A23-24
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840903047689A
- Case key
- 35755
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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.
Overrun
Airport facilities,runway/landing area condition - wetFactor
Distance - misjudgedCause
Lack of familiarity with aircraftCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditch
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear assembly - overload
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
After landing the plt used power to continue taxiing to the end of the wet grass rwy. Stopping distance was misjudged when braking began and the acft overran the rwy colliding with a small ditch. One main gear and the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62AC
- Reported as
- Beech A23-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MA-110
- Airframe hours
- 1,075
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A2B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Professional Pilot Service Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 12, 1984 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- PHL · Philadelphia, DE
- Airport
- Eagle Crest, runway 14, 3,500 × 50 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 9,112 total · 4 in this make and model · 9,050 as pilot in command · 64 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 225° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.