- Date
- July 1, 1984, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lacenter, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N772AWBeech M35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840701029769A
- Case key
- 39956
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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
Landed at wrong airport - inadvertentFactor
Lack of familiarity with geographic areaFactor
Distance - misjudgedCause
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Go-around - not performed
Miscellaneous/other
Ground loop/swerve - intentional
Analysis
The plt was on a flt to the Lacenter arpt which had a 1700 ft rwy. During arrival, he mistook a nearby, uncharted, private strip for the Lacenter arpt. After landing on the 1300 ft private strip, the plt realized he would be unable to stop on the rwy. He intentionally ground looped the acft to avoid obstacles.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N772AW
- Reported as
- Beech M35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-6179
- Airframe hours
- 4,200
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Warner Allen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HIO · Hillsboro, OR
- Destination
- Lacenter, WA
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 877 total · 460 in this make and model · 748 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PDX, 22 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.