MIA94LA013 · Beech A36
Beech A36 · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water
From Osmanabad Airport (OMN) to Osmanabad Airport (OMN)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA94LA013
- 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
- 3 · 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 A36
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 36
- 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
- N888AS
- Operator
- Herman, Bruce R. · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Osmanabad Airport (OMN)To Osmanabad Airport (OMN)
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- In flight collision with terrain/water
- 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 › Altitude, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Impairment(alcohol)
- Pilot in command › Impairment(drugs)
- Pilot in command › Judgment, poor
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Ormond Beach, FL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT WAS OBSERVED DEPARTING A BAR AT ABOUT 0230 WITH A TWELVE PACK OF BEER & 2 PERSONS THAT WERE LATER IDENTIFIED AS PASSENGERS OF THE AIRPLANE. HIS BODY & THOSE OF THE 2 PASSENGERS WASHED ASHORE THE NEXT DAY. MOST OF THE AIRPLANE WAS NOT RECOVERED, BUT SOME PARTS OF IT ALSO WASHED ASHORE. THESE INCLUDED AIRCRAFT SEATS THAT WERE TORN FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE TRACKS & A SECTION OF THE LEFT WING THAT BORE THE AIRCRAFT SERIAL NUMBER IN BLACK INK. TOXICOLOGY TESTS OF THE PILOT'S BLOOD WERE POSITIVE FOR ETHANOL (144 MG/DL), ACETALDEHYDE (20 MG/DL), TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL CARBOYLIC ACID (MARIJUANA/ 0.004 UG/ML), DIAZIPAM (0.16 UG/ML), NORDIAZEPAM (0.179 UG/ML), BENZOYLECGONINE (0.378 UG/ML) & HYDROCODONE (0.019 UG/ML). HIS URINE WAS POSITIVE FOR ETHANOL (227 MG/DL), ACETALDEHYDE (6 MG/DL), TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL CARBOXYLIC ACID (0.026 UG/ML), COCAINE (1.642 UG/ML), ICGONINE METHYL ESTER (0.982 MG/ML), & ACETAMINOPHEN (5.7 UG/ML). ALSO, COCAETHYLENE, OXAZEPAM, HYDROCODINE & HYDROMORPHONE WERE DETECTED IN HIS URINE.
Probable cause
POOR JUDGEMENT OF THE PILOT, DUE TO CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL AND USE OF DRUGS, AND HIS FAILURE (OR INABILITY) TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE (OR CLEARANCE) ABOVE WATER AT NIGHT. DARKNESS WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA94LA013
- Event ID
- 20001211X13620
- Case number
- MIA94LA013
- 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: 0d6d1ece08f5b925257f485ad5afd6e6871d10d600b11205114846c9ba55c1db; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:20:08.871Z.