- Date
- August 11, 1992, 17:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Walterboro, SC
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6540RBeech 23-B24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920811033059A
- Case key
- 8644
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Probable cause
The inadequate preflight planning by the pilot in command. Factors were the soft runway, and the high density altitude which existed at the time of the attempted departure.
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
The flight was attempting to depart the 2400 foot sod airfield. During the departure roll, passengers stated that the aircraft contacted a soft spot in the runway surface, and appeared to slow down. After liftoff, the aircraft contacted trees on the departure end of the runway and crashed into terrain. The temperature in the area at the time of the accident was 92 degrees fahrenheit, and the density altitude for the runway was in excess of 2000 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6540R
- Reported as
- Beech 23-B24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-306
- Airframe hours
- 2,698
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Obdam, Peter John
- Registered owner
- Bradley, David M.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 18, 1992 · 201 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Destination
- 8S5 · Mount Pleasant, SC
- Airport
- NONE · Cattertons Airstrip, runway 29, 2,400 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 70 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHS, 32 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.