19830121003979I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 200BEECH · Amarillo, TX · January 21, 1983

Date
January 21, 1983 · 14:00 local
Place
Amarillo, TX
Airport
Tradewind
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N111JW
Reported as
Beech 200BEECH
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6*
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,500 total2,800 in this make and model125 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

On takeoff roll snowbank fell in front of aircraft. Left main gear struck snow. Threw aircraft into snowbank.

As the FAA filed it

ON TAKEOFF ROLL SNOWBANK FELL IN FRONT OF AIRCRAFT. LEFT MAIN GEAR STRUCK SNOW. THREW AIRCRAFT INTO SNOWBANK.