Beech V35 accident near London, OH
On September 18, 2019, a Beech V35 (airplane) was involved in an accident near London, OH. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- September 18, 2019
- Place
- London, OH
- Aircraft
- Beech V35 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 39.932°N, 83.471°W
- NTSB ID
- 20190918X85320
Official records · CEN19FA323
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn September 18, 2019, at 0731 eastern daylight time, a Beech V35 airplane, N5438U, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident at Madison County Airport (UYF), London, Ohio. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector, the pilot was flying to UYF to attend the Ohio State University Farm Science Review. He departed from his personal airstrip, Apple Airstrip (0OH7), Piqua, Ohio, about 0715. He did not file a flight plan. Two people witnessed the accident. One witness was westbound on a highway in front of UYF. He stated it appeared that "the pilot overshot the runway and was banking back towards the east to make another approach.” The airplane then banked too steeply and “dove” toward the ground. He added that the pilot "may have been blinded [by the sun] as he banked and looked back east." The other witness was eastbound on the highway. He reported that he noticed an airplane "flying parallel to the highway” to his left (north) with its wings “perpendicular to the ground.” After the airplane flew over the highway, it “banked hard to the left and was too low to recover.” He then noticed a “flash” as if the right aileron had reflected the sunlight and the pilot was trying to bank right to level off but had insufficient airspeed “to correct." The eastbound witness had a dashboard camera, which captured the airplane's landing approach. The video showed the airplane fly east, parallel to the highway, then fly over t
Probable cause
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack while maneuvering toward the final leg of the traffic pattern and facing the rising sun, which resulted in a subsequent aerodynamic stall at too low an altitude to recover.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
