- Date
- May 2, 1988, 16:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Atlanta, GA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2025WBeech 55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880502014649A
- Case key
- 7602
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Door - openFactor
Aircraft preflight - inadequateCause
Diverted attentionCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Overrun
Aborted takeoff - delayedCause
All available runway - not usedFactor
Main gear collapsed
Landing gear,main gear - overloadFactor
Terrain condition - rough/uneven
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2025W
- Reported as
- Beech 55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-15
- Airframe hours
- 4,419
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C7, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- James Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Jesse James
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 30, 1988 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- Atlanta, GA
- Destination
- Hot Springs, AR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ATL · Hartsfield, runway 26L, 11,889 × 150 ft, concrete
N2025WRegistration cancelled Feb 7, 2019 · Beech 95-C55Airframe modelBeech 95-C55Engine modelContinental I0-470 series
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,752 total · 78 in this make and model · 3,455 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ATL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.