NYC94FA007 · Beech A36
Beech A36 · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Concord Municipal Airport (CON) to Beverly Regional Airport (BVY)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC94FA007
- 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
- Instrument 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
- N6AP
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Concord Municipal Airport (CON), Concord, NHTo Beverly Regional Airport (BVY), Beverly, MA
- 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
- Approach · IFR final approach
- 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 in flight
- 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 › IFR procedure, not followed
- Pilot in command › Spatial disorientation
- Pilot in command › Spiral, not corrected
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Topsfield, MA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT WAS RETURNING TO HIS TEMPORARY RESIDENCE AFTER THE 1ST DAY OF A PILOT PROFICIENCY COURSE. HIS ROUTE TOOK HIM OVER THE LWM VOR, WHERE HE WAS TO TRACK LEFT (ON 145 DEG COURSE) & INTERCEPT THE LOCALIZER (LOC) 157 DEGREE COURSE TO THE AIRPORT, VIA THE FINAL APPROACH FIX (FAF). THE FAF WAS ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN THE LWM VOR & THE AIRPORT. THE LOC & VOR EACH HAD DME. AFTER INTERCEPTING A 157 DEG COURSE TO THE VOR, THE PLANE CROSSED THE VOR & CONTINUED ON THE VOR 157 DEG RADIAL, PARALLELING THE LOC COURSE. AFTER PASSING THE VOR, THE PILOT REPORTED HIS DME FROM THE LWM VOR, RATHER THAN FROM THE LOC DME AT THE AIRPORT. HE REMAINED ABOVE THE 1800' MSL CROSSING ALTITUDE UNTIL ABOUT 2 MI PAST THE FAF. ABOUT 3 MI PAST THE FAF, THE AIRPLANE TURNED LEFT 27 DEGREES, FLEW ACROSS THE LOC COURSE, THEN BEGAN A DESCENDING RIGHT TURN. RADAR CONTACT WAS LOST AS THE PLANE DESCENDED BELOW 900'. IT STRUCK THE GROUND IN A DESCENDING RIGHT TURN. THE 2112 EDT WEATHER AT THE AIRPORT WAS IN PART: 100' OBSCURED, VIBILITY 1/4 MI WITH FOG.
Probable cause
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO FOLLOW THE PUBLISHED IFR PROCEDURE, AND HIS FAILURE TO CORRECT A SPIRAL AFTER BECOMING SPATIALLY DISORIENTED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC94FA007
- Event ID
- 20001211X13625
- Case number
- NYC94FA007
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1993-10-09.
- API snapshot SHA-256: a36fb1076f0c0beececca0399e7611ccd9c3038edb6ab507f4e7fcda8e6398af; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:21:29.457Z.