LAX93LA067 · Beech 23-C23
Beech 23-C23 · Accident: overrun during landing
From Compton Woodley Airport (CPM) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX93LA067
- 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 23-C23
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 23
- 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
- N5163M
- Operator
- Dorothy W. Cooke · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Compton Woodley Airport (CPM), Compton, CATo 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
- Overrun
- 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 › Go-around, delayed
- Pilot in command › Proper touchdown point, not attained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THIS FLIGHT WAS THE STUDENT PILOT'S SECOND SOLO CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT. GROUND WITNESSES REPORTED THAT THE AIRCRAFT HAD DIFFICULTY ENTERING THE PATTERN IN THE NORMAL MANNER AND SEEMED TO OVER SHOOT THE BASE TO FINAL TURN. THE WITNESSES REPORTED THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS 'VERY HIGH ON FINAL, CARRYING POWER, AND DIVING TOWARD THE RUNWAY.' THE AIRCRAFT WAS OBSERVED TO TOUCH DOWN ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY DOWN THE RUNWAY, BOUNCE ONCE, THEN SKID OFF THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY. THE AIRCRAFT TRAVELED THROUGH A WOODEN AIRPORT PERIMETER FENCE AND COLLIDED WITH A CAR ON A BORDERING STREET. THE STUDENT PILOT SAID THAT SHE LANDED LONG ON THE RUNWAY AND COULD NOT STOP PRIOR TO RUNNING OFF THE DEPARTURE END. THE PILOT REPORTED THAT SHE ATTEMPTED TO PERFORM A GO AROUND, BUT NEVER GOT AIRBORNE. THE STUDENT NOTED THAT HER HOME BASE AIRPORT HAS A 3,200 FOOT LONG RUNWAY WITH AN 800 FOOT DISPLACED THRESHOLD AND SHE IS USED TO LANDING LONG.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT AND TO INITIATE A TIMELY GO AROUND WHEN THE LANDING OVER SHOOT BECAME APPARENT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX93LA067
- Event ID
- 20001211X16183
- Case number
- LAX93LA067
- 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: 967454ac7db0ca6d15a0a8e75f79810c9b51878999bb89941fafcddf4f122772; retrieved 2026-09-21T23:04:13.399Z.