MKC84LA127 · Beech C23
Beech C23 · Accident: loss of control in flight during landing
From Quad City International Airport (MLI) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC84LA127
- 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 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
- N6715W
- Operator
- Elliott Beechcraft
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Quad City International Airport (MLI), Moline, ILTo 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
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, not possible
- Pilot in command › Weather evaluation, improper
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
ACCORDING TO FAA RECORDS, THE STUDENT PLT RECIEVED A WX BRIEFING AT 1000 CST. AT THAT TIME, THE LATEST WX OBSERVATION AT OTTUMUA, IA, (CLOSEST WX STATION TO BROOMFIELD, IA) SHOWED THE WIND WAS FROM 110 DEGS AT 11 KTS. ABOUT 25 MINS AFTER THE BRIEFING, THE FORECAST WAS AMENDED TO EXPECT WINDS FROM 090 DEGS AT 15 KTS. ARRIVING AT BROOMFIELD THE PLT MADE A GO-AROUND AFTER ENCOUNTERING A STRONG X-WIND ON THE 1ST APCH. HE LANDED AFTER THE 2ND APCH BUT THE ACFT DRIFTED OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF THE RWY & HIT A DITCH. THE UNICOM WAS NOT OPERATIONAL AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT, BUT THERE WAS AN OPERATIONAL WIND SOCK. AN AG OPERATOR ON THE ARPT ESTIMATED THE WIND WAS FROM THE EAST AT 20 TO 30 KTS. THESTUDENT DID NOT CONTACT THE FSS AT OTTUMUA TO UPDATE THE WIND WX INFO.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC84LA127
- Event ID
- 20001214X39372
- Case number
- MKC84LA127
- 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: 9c986daa35dd58c10aa3c4bfba9f9733ffbe03e1e590bbbb447af27945219cfb; retrieved 2026-09-22T02:19:04.160Z.