- Date
- December 25, 1987, 06:50 local (11:50 UTC)
- Place
- Flushing, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured; on the ground: 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N58MHBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871225082969A
- Case key
- 36079
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
As the plts were taxiing at dusk to takeoff, the acft was struck by a food svc van at a vehicle svc road. The acdnt occurred as rain was falling & the ramp area was wet with standing water. The van driver said he had just maneuvered his vehicle to the left to get around a Lockheed L-1011 & was moving back to the right to get on the svc road when he saw the Beech 58. He tried to avoid the acft, but the van hit the left wing & tail. The plt said he was taxiing with the rotating bcn, nav & taxi lgts on. He said he was crossing the svc road when he saw the van & stopped, but the van skidded into the acft. The van driver said he did not see any acft lgts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N58MH
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-609
- Airframe hours
- 5,927
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Executive Flightways, doing business as Executive Flightways
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- ISP · Islip, NY
- Airport
- Laguardia
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,250 total · 328 in this make and model · 1,820 as pilot in command · 191 in the last 90 days · 55 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.