MIA93FA200 · Beech C35
Beech C35 · Accident: airframe, component or system failure while maneuvering
From 36X to 36X
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA93FA200
- 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
- 1 · 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
Beech C35
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 35
- 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
- N5936C
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 36XTo 36X
- 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
- Maneuvering
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall; Tree(s)
- 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 › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
- Propeller system/accessories › Undetermined
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Ocklawaha, FL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
PURPOSE OF THE FLIGHT WAS TO TEST THE AIRPLANE'S RADIOS. THE PILOT'S WIFE WAS AT THE AIRPARK WITH A PORTABLE VHF RADIO. ACCORDING TO HER, THE AIRPLANE ORBITED THE AIRPARK ABOUT 5 TIMES, THEN FLEW TOWARD AN AREA THE PILOT HAD PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED TO HER AS A POSSIBLE FORCED LANDING AREA. SHE SAID THE PILOT CONTACTED HER & ADVISED OF A 'PROBLEM WITH THE PROPELLER.' FOUR WITNESSES SAW THE AIRPLANE MANEUVERING AT LOW ALTITUDE. THEY INDICATED THE PLANE PULLED UP FROM NEAR TREETOP LEVEL, THEN IT ENTERED A DESCENT, HIT TREES, CRASHED & BURNED. ONE WITNESS SAID THE ENGINE SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS RUNNING ROUGH; ANOTHER STATED THE ENGINE POWER STOPPED BEFORE THE AIRPLANE PITCHED NOSE DOWN. NO PREIMPACT FAILURE OF THE ENGINE WAS FOUND. AN EXAM REVEALED THAT 1 OF 2 PROPELLER BLADES HAD SEPARATED DURING THE SEQUENCE. A BRONZE BLADE BUSHING FOR THE SEPARATED BLADE WAS NOT LOCATED. TESTS FOR ETHANOL REVEALED 0.03 GM% IN THE PILOT'S BLOOD, 0.05 GM% IN VITREOUS FLUID, AND 0.05 GM% IN HIS URINE. ALSO, 32 MG/DL OF ACETALDEHYDE WAS DETECTED IN THE PILOT'S BLOOD.
Probable cause
FAILURE OF A PROPELLER BLADE FOR AN UNDETERMINED REASON, AND FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT STALL. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: LOW PASS PERFORMED BY THE PILOT, AND HIS POSSIBLE IMPAIRMENT FROM CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA93FA200
- Event ID
- 20001211X13453
- Case number
- MIA93FA200
- 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: 222577f6b85b504dd1adef17339bea1a5ddfdd19e521aea57539ce7965ca5472; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:22:38.273Z.