- Date
- April 17, 1987, 13:16 local (17:16 UTC)
- Place
- Pleasantville, NY
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 minor; on the ground: 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N721WWBeech 58P
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870417010079A
- Case key
- 30495
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 rept his auto-pilot was malfunctioning on the apch and he was having aileron problems. He rept a loss of pwr, got the eng started, and then rept a double pwr loss. Prior to disappearing from radar he rept that he was starting one engine. The acft impacted a house. The 5 occupants of the house escaped, one with minor injuries. The acft and house were destroyed by fire. The acft had flown 2.2 hrs after departing with 166 gals of useable fuel on board. No evidence of fuel spillage was found from the rt wing which had broken open on impact with a tree. The occupants of the house rept hearing and feeling the crash and observing a liquid raining down from a collapsed ceiling in an adjacent room. Investigation revealed the acft fuel selectors were in the crossfeed positions. The normal position for operation is the on position. Crossfeeding of fuel is restricted to emergency use in level flt only.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N721WW
- Reported as
- Beech 58P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TJ-475
- Airframe hours
- 398
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard Rosenthal
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 19, 1987 · 44 hours before
- Departed
- SRY · Syracuse, NY
- Destination
- HPN · White Plains, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HPN · White Plains, runway 16, 6,548 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 850 total · 60 in this make and model · 78 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HPN, 6 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.