- Date
- January 31, 1993, 11:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Bend, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N56843Boeing A75N1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930131001179A
- Case key
- 42981
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Probable cause
Directional control not maintained and ground loop/swerve not corrected by the pilot in command.
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 aircraft swerved off the left side of a 75 ft. wide runway during landing ground roll, impacted a snow berm, and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N56843
- Reported as
- Boeing A75N1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-536
- Airframe hours
- 3,076
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN1, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Walsh, Don R.
- Registered owner
- Sharkey, Edward L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 1, 1992
- Airport
- S07 · Bend Municipal, runway 16, 5,005 × 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
- 61
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 24,000 total · 5 in this make and model · 16,000 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 35 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RDM, 10 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.