ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 296162
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| Date: | Saturday 1 March 2003 |
| Time: | 19:30 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft A36 Bonanza |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N343BA |
| MSN: | E-1317 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4853 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-550 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mount Airy, North Carolina -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Mount Airy/Surry County Airport, NC (KMWK) |
| Elizabethtown-Curtis L Brown Jr Field, NC (KEYF) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
According to the airport manager, the instrument flight collided with the ground shortly after takeoff. Weather at the time of the accident was wind calm, visibility two statue miles, drizzle, ceiling overcast 500 feet, temperature eight degrees Celsius, dew point six degrees Celsius, altimeter 30.00 inches of mercury. Examination of the wreckage site found that the airplane had collided with terrain on the south side of an east-west oriented hill, in a near vertical nose-down attitude. The engine and forward cabin had penetrated the ground to a depth of about eight feet. The wreckage examination failed to disclose anomalies with the airframe or systems.
Probable Cause: The pilots failure to maintain control of the aircraft due to spatial disorientation. A factor was low clouds.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ATL03FA052
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 13 November 1983 | N343BA | Midwest Property Management Co | 0 | Satanta, KS | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 13-Oct-2022 17:17 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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