LAX87LA033 · Beech K35
Beech K35 · Accident: in flight encounter with weather on approach
From Kingman Airport (IGM) to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport (MYF)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX87LA033
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Beech K35
- 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
- N399WM
- Operator
- Dean Holt
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kingman Airport (IGM), Kingman, AZTo Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport (MYF)
- 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
- In flight encounter with weather
- 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 › Decision height, improper use of
- Pilot in command › IFR procedure, improper
- Pilot in command › Missed approach, not followed
- Pilot in command › Proper climb rate, not attained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
AT THE END OF A NIGHT CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT, THE PILOT ATTEMPTED AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH TO THE MONTGOMERY AIRPORT AFTER BEING ADVISED THE WEATHER WAS BELOW BASIC VFR MINIMUMS. HE WAS CLEARED FOR AN ILS APPROACH AND REPORTED THAT HE HAD THE RUNWAY IN SIGHT AT ABOUT 400 FT; HOWEVER, HE LOST SIGHT OF THE RUNWAY DUE TO FOG AS HE CONTINUED. JUST BEFORE THE PILOT INITIATED A MISSED APPROACH, HE WAS ADVISED THAT THE VISIBILITY HAD DROPPED TO 1/16 MILE. DURING THE MISSED APPROACH, THE AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH THE RUNWAY WHILE IT WAS STILL DESCENDING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX87LA033
- Event ID
- 20001213X35190
- Case number
- LAX87LA033
- 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 1986-11-06.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 9064efbdccb6b30dd741e7c93ba514d415ee6b6c3f30366bcf584a0b64edb515; retrieved 2026-09-22T01:09:56.486Z.