- Date
- January 11, 1993, 10:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Riverton, WY
- Injuries
- 11 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N34010Beech 1900C
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930111004879I
- Case key
- 42944
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Probable cause
The pilot's disorientation. Factors include snow, fog, snow covered terrain, and a drainage ditch.
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 attempting to exit the runway after landing in conditions of reduced visibility, the captain became disoriented, and turned the aircraft onto snow covered terrain, believing it to be a taxiway. Once the crew realized that they were not on the taxiway, the captain attempted to stop the aircraft. The nose wheel collapsed when it hit a snow covered ditch prior to the aircraft coming to a stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N34010
- Reported as
- Beech 1900C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- VC3
- Engine
- P&W PT-6A-65B, 1,100 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Britt Airways/Continental Exp.
- Registered owner
- Britt Airways/Continental Exp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- RIW · Riverton Regional, runway 28, 8,202 × 150 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
- 44
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,600 total · 1,554 in this make and model · 200 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft
- Temperature
- 7 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
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 N34010 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.