- Date
- February 8, 1985, 16:30 local (Feb 9, 1985, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Spokane, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6588SBeech 58TC
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850208025779A
- Case key
- 40112
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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Weather condition - below approach/landing minimumsFactor
Ifr procedure - simulatedCause
Proper touchdown point - not identifiedCause
Terrain condition - snow covered
Analysis
The acft touched down to the left of the runway onto snow. Visibility at the time of the accident was 1 mile with snow and a ceiling of 700 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6588S
- Reported as
- Beech 58TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TK4
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-L, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- M.C.Aldred, doing business as Barckley Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Lester C. Barclay
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- S27 · Kalispell, MT
- Destination
- SFF · Spokane, WA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SFF · Felts Field, runway 32, 4,500 × 150 ft, snow
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
- 53
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,007 total · 50 in this make and model · 7,736 as pilot in command · 113 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SFF
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6588S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.