- Date
- December 15, 1983, 12:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Cherry Point, NC
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N60Sabreliner NA-265-80
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 6344
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning/preparation. Factors contributing to the accident were fog, rain, and lightning.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
Acft lined up with the left edge flush mounted rwy lights thinking they were centerline lights. Beginning about 1000 ft down the rwy the edge lights were post mounted and one ft in height. Noremal acceleration was begun and the takeoff was aborted at about 80 KTS after striking 4 or 5 lights. Rwy markings were conventional. The width of the rwy was reduced from 400 ft to 200 ft a year before & the former rwy surfaceremained. There were no centerline lights.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60
- Reported as
- Sabreliner NA-265-80
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 380-28
- Airframe hours
- 8,009
- Engine
- GE CF-700, 4,500 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Public aircraft · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Federal Aviation Adminis.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · November 2, 1983 · 93 hours before
- Departed
- NKT
- Destination
- TYS · Knoxville, TN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- NKT · Cherry Point, runway 32R, 7,890 × 200 ft, concrete
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 15,700 total · 3,000 in this make and model · 120 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NKT