BEECH WEEKLY ACCIDENT UPDATE

Official information from FAA and NTSB sources (unless otherwise noted). Editorial comments (contained in parentheses), year-to-date summary and closing comments are those of the author.  All information is preliminary and subject to change.  Comments are meant solely to enhance flying safety.  Please use these reports to help you more accurately evaluate the potential risks when you make your own decisions about how and when to fly.

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New reports this week

2/23 1409Z (0909 local Sunday morning): Two aboard a Be36 escaped injury, despite “substantial” airplane damage, when the Bonanza “struck a snowbank short of the runway” on the ice runway at Alton Bay, New Hampshire. N321TB (E-1998) is/was a 1982 A36.

(“Landed short”; “Substantial damage”—widely distributed video confirms this report from a knowledgeable FLYING LESSONS reader: 

3/1 1800Z (1200 local Saturday noon): A Be36 landed gear up at Lawton, Oklahoma. Both persons aboard the “instructional” flight were unhurt; airplane damage is “unknown.” N1134X (E-3074) is a 1997 A36.

(“Gear up landing”)

3/1 2100Z (1400 local Saturday afternoon): A Be35 “veered off the runway during takeoff into snow/mud, damaging [the Bonanza’s] landing gear and prop[eller],” at Kalispell, Montana. All four aboard escaped unhurt and airplane damage is “minor.” N4405A (D-9141) is a 1970 V35B.

(“Loss of directional control during takeoff/contaminated runway”)

3/4 1400Z (0900 local Monday morning): A Be36 landed gear up at Hollywood, Florida. The solo pilot was unhurt and airplane damage is “unknown.” N6727V (EA-378) is a 1983 B36TC.

(“Gear up landing”)

New NTSB reports this week 

1/16 N35 fuel starvation on short final during a night landing at Plainview, Texas. From the NTSB Final report:

2/5 58P partial power loss and night off-airport landing at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. From the NTSB Preliminary report:

Change “Crash/unknown” to “Dual partial power loss/off-airport landing.”

2025 SUMMARY

Reported Beechcraft piston mishaps, 2025

Total reported:  18 reports

Environment

Operation in VMC:  8 reports

Operation in IMC:     2 reports

Weather “unknown” or “not reported”:  9 reports

Operation at night:  3 reports

Most Serious Injury 

“Serious” injury accidents (not involving fatalities):   0 reports

Fatal accidents:   1 report

Aircraft damage

“Substantial” damage:   5 reports

Aircraft “destroyed”:    2 reports

BONANZA/BARON Series:   18 reports

By Aircraft Type

Be36 Bonanza   8 reports

Be35 Bonanza   4 reports

Be58 Baron   3 reports

Be33 Debonair/Bonanza   1 report

Be55 Baron   1 report

Be95 Travel Air.  1 report

Environment

Operation in VMC:  7 reports

Operation in IMC:   2 reports

Weather “unknown” or “not reported”:  9 reports

Operation at night: 3 reports

Most Serious Injury

“Serious” injury accidents (not involving fatalities):  0 reports

Fatal accidents:  1 report

Aircraft damage

“Substantial” damage:  5 reports

Aircraft “destroyed”:   2 reports

PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION OF CAUSE 

(all subject to update per official findings):

FATAL and SERIOUS INJURY EVENTS   1 report

Engine failure

Engine failure in flight   1 report (Be35)

OTHER EVENTS    17 reports

Landing gear related mishaps  7 reports

Nose gear collapse during landing   4 reports (Be35; Be36; Be58; Be95)

Gear up landing   2 reports (both Be36s)

Nose wheel separation during landing   1 report (Be33)

Engine failure  5 reports

Engine failure in flight   2 reports (Be35; Be36)

Engine failure during/immediately after takeoff   2 reports (both Be36s)

Dual partial power loss/off-airport landing (Be58)

Impact during landing

Runway overrun   1 report (Be58)

Landed short   1 report (Be36)

Impact during takeoff

Aborted takeoff/runway overrun   1 report (Be55)

Loss of directional control during takeoff/contaminated runway   1 report (Be35)

Miscellaneous

Taxi into object   1 report (Be36)

MISCELLANEOUS Models:  1 report

Be45 Mentor/T-34   1 reports

Environment

Operation in VMC:  1 report

Operation in IMC:    0 reports

Weather “unknown” or “not reported”:  0 reports

Operation at night: 0 reports

Most Serious Injury

“Serious” injury accidents (not involving fatalities):  0 reports

Fatal accidents:  0 reports

Aircraft damage

“Substantial” damage:  0 reports

Aircraft “destroyed”:   0 reports

PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION OF CAUSE 

(all subject to update per official findings):

FATAL and SERIOUS INJURY EVENTS   0 reports

OTHER EVENTS   1 report

Landing gear related mishaps

Gear up landing   1 report (Be45)

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Official information from FAA and NTSB sources (unless otherwise noted). Editorial comments (contained in parentheses), year-to-date summary and closing comments are those of the author.  All information is preliminary and subject to change.  Comments are meant solely to enhance flying safety.  Please use these reports to help you more accurately evaluate the potential risks when you make your own decisions about how and when to fly.