- Date
- May 29, 1988, 14:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Meriden, CT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6042XBeech 23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880529024099A
- Case key
- 36156
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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 Beech 23 lost power during a go-around. During an off-airport landing, the acft struck a house. The private pilot died the following day of injuries and the flight instructor was seriously injured. There was no evidence of a large fuel spill and only residual fuel was found. The left fuel gage transmitter indicated a higher quantity of fuel than was actually in the tank on low readings. The aircraft had flown 6.2 hours according to the hobbs meter since its last refueling. The aircraft fuel tanks are equipped with tabs to assist in the determination of the amount of fuel in the tanks. This was the first flight in the type of aircraft for the private pilot. A witness reported that the private pilot conducted the pre-flight and then the flight instructor came to the aircraft which departed a few minutes later.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6042X
- Reported as
- Beech 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-2165
- Airframe hours
- 2,103
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-AJ4, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Meriden Airways
- Registered owner
- Peter Mccluskey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 3, 1988 · 12 hours before
- Airport
- MMK · Meriden Markham Muni., runway 36, 3,100 × 75 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
- 23
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 601 total · 26 in this make and model · 425 as pilot in command · 183 in the last 90 days · 57 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.