SEA92LA212 · Beech E35
Beech E35 · Accident: on ground/water collision with object during landing
From Becker's Landing Airport (WN18) to Becker's Landing Airport (WN18)
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA92LA212
- 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
Beech E35
- 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
- N7337B
- Operator
- Becker, Lawrence D. · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Becker's Landing Airport (WN18)To Becker's Landing Airport (WN18)
- 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
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT EXECUTED AN APPROACH AND LANDING TO RUNWAY 17, A 1700 FOOT LONG, 75 FOOT WIDE, TURF STRIP WHICH HE OWNED/OPERATED. DURING THE ROLLOUT THE AIRCRAFT'S LEFT WINGTIP IMPACTED TREES AND A DEAD SNAG ALONG THE EAST (LEFT) RUNWAY EDGE. ON SITE EXAMINATION REVEALED THE AIRCRAFT'S WHEEL TRACKS GRADUALLY ANGLING TOWARD THE EAST EDGE OF THE RUNWAY. THE NOSE GEAR WAS OBSERVED TO HAVE SEPARATED IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH SIDE IMPOSED OVERLOAD AND THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR WAS OBSERVED TO HAVE COLLAPSED DUE TO THE SAME CONDITIONS. ON SITE EXAMINATION OF THE ELECTRICALLY OPERATED FLAPS REVEALED NO DAMAGE/DEFORMATION IN SPITE OF THE AIRCRAFT COLLAPSING ONTO ITS RIGHT WING DURING THE GROUND SLIDE. THE AIRPORT OWNER (PILOT) PUBLISHED A RECOMMENDATION IN THE 1991 AIRPORT MASTER RECORD THAT LANDINGS BE MADE FROM THE SOUTH EXCEPT IN STRONG SOUTH WINDS. THE PILOT REPORTED WINDS AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT AS FROM THE SOUTHEAST AT 3-5 KNOTS. POST CRASH EXAMINATION OF THE BRAKES AND THROTTLE LINKAGE REVEALED NO MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION.
Probable cause
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S NOT EXTENDING THE FLAPS FOR LANDING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA92LA212
- Event ID
- 20001211X15784
- Case number
- SEA92LA212
- 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 1992-09-22.
- API snapshot SHA-256: dad0d75cbf3a94c08230f0e3e3b218db6681063ab3ea02f2996845ff44c0ae78; retrieved 2026-09-23T02:36:29.132Z.