- Date
- January 12, 2023, 13:00, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Yelm, WA · Private Airpark
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N225VBeech 95-C55
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · 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
- Case key
- 106596
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 attain a proper touchdown point during landing with a tailwind which resulted in a runway over run. Contributing to the accident was a wet runway.
Findings · 5
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, during the approach for landing to a wet runway, he experienced a tailwind that pushed the airplane further down the runway than intended as he crossed the threshold. During the landing roll, the pilot applied the brakes but discovered that there was more standing water on the runway than expected, resulting in the airplane hydroplaning. The airplane subsequently overran the end of the runway onto soft ground and through trees resulting 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
- N225V
- Reported as
- Beech 95-C55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-123
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 5,433
- Engines
- Continental IO-520CB3, 285 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO-520CB40, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Weston Timothy J
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 9, 2022 · 22 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 06WN · Western Air Park, runway 09, 2,849 × 30 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Auto-pilot, Handheld GPS, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 84
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 11, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 25,000 total · 1,476 in this make and model · 15,000 as pilot in command · 4.7 in the last 90 days · 2.5 in the last 30 days · 0.7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.81 inHg
- Observed at
- KGRF, 9 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KGRF 122055Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM -DZ BKN065 13/10 A2981 RMK AO2 RAB1958E16DZB16E18DZB35 SLP099 P0000 60002 T01250095 58013
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 23, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 MB in all.