- Date
- January 18, 2023, 08:18 local (15:18 UTC)
- Place
- Poplar, MT · PO1
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N200EJRaytheon BE-200
- Defining event
- Approach-IFR final approach: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20230118000939A
- Case key
- 106593
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed and descent rate during the landing approach, which resulted in an impact with terrain short of the runway threshold.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that while on approach for landing, the airplane started to lose altitude quickly. After the co-pilot noticed the high decent rate and the slow airspeed, he advised the pilot to add power. However, the airplane continued to descend and impacted terrain in a right wing and nose low attitude, about 30 yards short of the runway approach threshold, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N200EJ
- Reported as
- Raytheon BE-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BB-1884
- Built
- 2004
- Airframe hours
- 4,538.7
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-42, 850 horsepower, turbo propPratt & Whitney PT6A-42, 850 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 135
- Operator
- Lynch Flying Service Inc DBA
- Registered owner
- Lynch Flying Service Inc DBA
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · October 19, 2022
- Departed
- KBIL · Billings, MT
- Destination
- PO1 · Poplar, MT
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PO1 · Poplar Muni, runway 9, 4,403 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 29, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 4,242 total · 2,068 in this make and model · 5,892 as pilot in command · 92 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 11, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 10,301 total · 4,137 in this make and model · 9,753 as pilot in command · 84 in the last 90 days · 27 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.90 inHg
- Observed at
- KPO1
- METAR
- METAR KPO1 181500Z AUTO 11009KT 3SM BR OVC004 M03/M03 A2990
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 15, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 11.9 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.