- Date
- April 30, 1987, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- York, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Emergency descent
- Aircraft
- N66PABeech BE-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 30638
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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
While the aircraft was being ferried from massy, Maryland to ankeny, Iowa, a loss of oil pressure on the left engine was experienced. A precautionary landing was made in a cornfield with the landing gear in the up position when the gear failed to extend. Fire erupted on the ground. Due to fire damage the reason for the loss of oil pressure was undetermined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66PA
- Reported as
- Beech BE-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5111486
- Airframe hours
- 4,140
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Todds Flying Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Massey, MD
- Destination
- Ankeny, IA
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
- 49
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 11,015 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg