WPR19FA150 · Beech 35 C35
Beech 35 C35 · Accident: aerodynamic stall/spin during initial climb
From Sunrise Skypark Airport (ID40) to Sunrise Skypark Airport (ID40)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR19FA150
- 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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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 C35
- 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
- N1888D
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Sunrise Skypark Airport (ID40), Melba, IDTo Sunrise Skypark Airport (ID40), Melba, ID
- Aircraft age
- About 67 years (built 1952)
- 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
- Initial climb
- Defining eventThe 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
- Aerodynamic stall/spin
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Physical
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Shortly after takeoff in his airplane that was not approved for aerobatics, the airline transport pilot performed an aileron roll about 500 ft above ground level. He departed the airport traffic pattern, then returned and landed about 15 minutes later. The pilot taxied the airplane back to the runway and initiated another takeoff, during which he leveled off and accelerated the airplane about 50 ft above the ground, retracted the landing gear, and initiated a climb and an aileron roll. A witness reported that, about 135° into the maneuver, the airplane stopped rolling, then entered a descent that continued until ground impact. Postaccident examination of the airplane and engine revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Toxicological testing of the pilot revealed impairing levels of ethanol in addition to two impairing antidepressant medications. The circumstances of the accident are consistent with the pilot's loss of control during a low-level aerobatic maneuver. It is likely that the pilot's recent alcohol ingestion and his use of antidepressant medications affected his decision making and attention and contributed to the accident.
Probable cause
The pilot's loss of control during a low-level aerobatic maneuver, which resulted in impact with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s impairment due to the effects of alcohol and antidepressant medication.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR19FA150
- Event ID
- 20190519X85324
- Case number
- WPR19FA150
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: 932d83cbd64e0dd8a578e5efe22dbba00ba59b7414df7398a5cc57275ad487b0; retrieved 2026-09-15T06:58:18.958Z.