ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 36256
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| Date: | Friday 23 May 1997 |
| Time: | 16:48 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft V35 Bonanza |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N5459U |
| MSN: | D-8541 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3600 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-520-BA(10) |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Shawnee, OK -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | (KSNL) |
| Minot, ND (KMOT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The noninstrument-rated private pilot called the FSS for a weather briefing. The briefer recommended to the pilot to 'not fly VFR.' The pilot stated to the briefer that 'I'm not going to fly with those [weather] conditions.' The pilot departed on runway 17, at approximately 1643. The airplane climbed to approximately 2,000 feet agl before it began descending. Several witnesses observed the airplane 'spinning very rapidly out of the clouds to the ground.' A witness reported that he (the witness) departed the airport approximately 20 to 30 minutes before the accident. He stated that the local area weather was: visibility 5 miles with haze, cloud condition generally overcast with some areas of occasional broken, cloud bottoms were at approximately 1,500 feet agl, and the cloud tops were approximately 2,200 feet agl.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inadvertent entry into a spin. A factor was the pilot's initiated flight into adverse weather.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB FTW97FA199
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Oct-2008 10:30 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:22 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 08-Apr-2024 15:19 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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