CHI93LA198 · Beech 200
Pontiac Coil Beech 200 and Cessna 177 · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI93LA198
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Aircraft 1 · Beech 200
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 200
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N210PH
- Operator
- Pontiac Coil
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Oakland County International Airport (PTK), Pontiac, MITo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control on ground/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Aircraft 2 · Cessna 177
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N34639
- Operator
- John Gariepy/D. Clark
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 10KTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Standing · engine(s) operating
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- On ground/water collision with object
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Proper alignment, not maintained
- Pilot of other aircraft › Proper alignment, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT OF THE BEECH 200 KING AIR, N210PH, STATED THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD LANDED THIS AIRPLANE AT THE AIRPORT; ALL PREVIOUS LANDINGS WERE WITH CESSNA 400 SERIES AIRPLANES. THE BEECH 200 MAIN LANDING GEAR IS 17 FT 2 IN WIDE. THE RUNWAY WIDTH IS 36 FT. SHORTLY AFTER TOUCHDOWN THE AIRPLANE DRIFTED LEFT UNTIL THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR TIRES WENT OFF THE RUNWAY INTO THE GRASS. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO GET THE LEFT TIRES BACK ONTO THE RUNWAY USING RIGHT BRAKING & MAXIMUM REVERSE THRUST. THE AIRPLANE COLLIDED WITH THE CESSNA 177, N34639, WHICH WAS HOLDING ON THE RUNWAY EDGE HOLDING PAD LOCATED AT THE APRX MID-POINT OF THE RUNWAY. THE PILOTS HAD BEEN IN RADIO CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER, AND THE PILOT OF THE BEECH 200 SAID THERE WOULD BE ADEQUATE CLEARANCE BETWEEN THE TWO AIRPLANES.
Probable cause
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT OF THE BEECH 200, N210PH, TO MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT RUNWAY ALIGNMENT TO PREVENT THE AIRPLANE FROM DEPARTING THE RUNWAY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI93LA198
- Event ID
- 20001211X12561
- Case number
- CHI93LA198
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 03a639b0ae75f625e6c32339fb2b0e42059233e01936c96ee593dc5e9a85f51f; retrieved 2026-09-21T14:23:00.011Z.