Beechcraft D55 N611W

14 August 1974 · Lubbock, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 14 August 1974 at about 21:13 local time, a Beechcraft D55 registered N611W, operated by Wheatheart, Inc, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Lubbock, Texas, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 14 August 1974 at 21:13
Classification: Accident
Location: Lubbock, Texas, United States
Nearest airport: Lubbock Regional
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft D55
Registration: N611W
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Wheatheart, Inc
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Oklahoma City, Okla → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-2449

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

L MLG TIRE FLAT ON TOUCHDOWN.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-2449, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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