Cessna 650 N502T

Summary

On 4 March 1998 at about 14:07 local time, a Cessna 650 registered N502T was involved in an accident near Manistee, Michigan, United States. 9 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

4 March 1998 at 14:07

Classification

Accident

Location

Manistee, Michigan, United States

Nearest airport

Manistee County-Blacker (MBL)

Coordinates

44.2400, -86.3206

Aircraft

Cessna 650

Registration

N502T

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Executive/Corporate

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Waukegan → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

IMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CHI98LA100

Nobody was injured.

the pilots excessive airspeed during landing, exceeding the proper touchdown point, and failure to execute a missed approach.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane touched down approximately 3,100 to 3,200 feet down the 5,502-foot-long runway. It continued off the end of the runway where the nose gear collapsed puncturing the pressure bulkhead. The AWOS report received by the flightcrew during the approach reported the weather at the airport as partially obscured with a 200 foot broken ceiling. Minimum descent altitude for the approach was 441 feet with weather minimums of a 500 foot ceiling and 1 1/4 mile visibility. The flight data recorder shows the airplane touched down at an airspeed of 138 knots. The crew called out a Vref during the approach of 132 knots.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.