Beechcraft A36 N36SR

Summary

On 22 May 2016 at about 19:00 local time, a Beechcraft A36 registered N36SR was involved in an accident near Griffin, Georgia, United States. One person was 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

22 May 2016 at 19:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Griffin, Georgia, United States

Nearest airport

Cedar Ridge (GA62)

Coordinates

33.2550, -84.4003

Aircraft

Beechcraft A36

Registration

N36SR

Category

Airplane

Year built

1977

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Fort Worth → Griffin

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA16CA254

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's decision to land with a tailwind, resulting in a runway overrun and collision with a highway road embankment.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to the pilot, during landing with fifty percent flaps, in gusting wind conditions, the airplane was too fast as she approached the runway and she aborted the landing. She reported that during the second approach with flaps in the same configuration, she touched down normally, applied the brakes during the landing roll, but could not stop the airplane before exiting the departure end of the runway. The airplane crossed a highway and collided with an embankment. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were not any mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with any portion of the airplane that would have prevented normal flight operations. According to the Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) that was available to the pilot for the accident airport, the weather at the time of the accident was reported as: K6A2 221855Z AUTO 34008G14KT 10SM CLR 25/12 A2995 RMK AO2. The pilot landed on runway 18.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.