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MKC85LA109 · Beech 35-B33

21 May 1985 · CALAMUS, IA, United States

Beech 35-B33 · Accident: overrun during landing

From 6C4 · Hampton, IA to an unrecorded destination

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Event

NTSB case
MKC85LA109
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 35-B33

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
N3EM
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From 6C4 · Hampton, IATo 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 › Airspeed, misjudged
  • Pilot in command › Distance, misjudged
  • Pilot in command › Go-around, not performed

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

DURING ARRIVAL, THE PLT LANDED ON A 1700 FT TURF RWY WHICH SLOPED DOWNHILL TO THE NORTH & HAD A 30 FT POWER LINE LOCATED NEAR THE APCH END. REPORTEDLY, THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN 572 FT FROM THE DEPARTURE END, THEN CONTINUED OFF THE RWY & HIT A DIRT BANK NEXT TO A DRAINAGE DITCH. THE PLT REPORTED THAT THE THROTTLE WAS BINDING & THAT IT HUNG UP MOMENTARILY WHEN HE WAS RETARDING IT DURING THE LANDING. HE WAS AWARE OF THE THROTTLE DISCREPANCY BEFORE THE FLIGHT. THE U.S. ARPT/FACILITY DIRECTORY LISTING FOR THIS ARPT STATED 'RWY 17-35 LAND ONLY TO THE SOUTH.'

Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record MKC85LA109
Event ID
20001214X36558
Case number
MKC85LA109
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: 73bff78330a473876ca60aaa1a6ed7fd54d71589135ec765bcde22837dd88d54; retrieved 2026-09-22T01:50:30.265Z.