Beechcraft B-58 N24DB

Summary

On 13 August 1999 at about 21:30 local time, a Beechcraft B-58 registered N24DB was involved in an accident near Panacea, Florida, United States. 2 people were on board and one died, one had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

13 August 1999 at 21:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Panacea, Florida, United States

Nearest airport

Wakulla County (2JO)

Coordinates

30.0306, -84.3795

Aircraft

Beechcraft B-58

Registration

N24DB

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Griffin → Panacea

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

MIA99FA219

1 person died.

The pilot's excessive speed and extended touchdown point during landing resulting in an inability to stop the airplane within the length of the wet, grass runway, and the subsequent on-ground collision with the airport fence and trees.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to an airpark resident and pilot who landed on the same, single 2,280 foot sod runway about 20 minutes before the accident, thunderstorms were rapidly approaching the airport from the west. Light rain began falling and the wind shifted from south to north. The accident airplane was observed to enter a left base for runway 18 from overhead the airport and touch down about the mid point of the runway. The passenger stated that the pilot, himself, yelled to her to hold on, that they weren't going to get stopped. The airplane skidded off the end of the runway, through a chain link fence, and into a thicket of trees. The tree collision destroyed the right wing and the nose section, displacing the instrument panel rearward. Postcrash examination of the airplane's engines, engine controls, propellers, brake system, and flight control systems revealed no precrash failures or malfunctions.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.