- Date
- May 11, 1993, 15:39 local (22:39 UTC)
- Place
- Seaside, OR
- Injuries
- 4 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N435BWBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930511013239A
- Case key
- 43018
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's delaying the go around. Factors contributing to the accident were tailwinds and the pilot in command's misjudgement of wind information.
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 pilot entered the airport traffic pattern and initiated an approach to runway 16. A witness mowing grass near the threshold to runway 16 reported the windsock 'showing a strong steady wind from the north' and northerly winds were confirmed by a witness at the airport's south end. Winds at nearby coastal airports were consistently from the northwest at 12 to 21 knots during the afternoon of the accident. The first witness also reported observing the aircraft flare 4 or 5 times in the length of the runway before impacting the road.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N435BW
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-811
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Theodorson, Robert & Dorothy
- Registered owner
- Theodorson, Robert & Dorothy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 8, 1993 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- SLE · Salem, OR
- Airport
- 56S · Seaside Municipal, runway 16, 2,357 × 50 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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,101 total · 1,255 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 21 knots, gusting 27
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AST, 9 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.