- Date
- May 12, 1987, 15:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chestertown, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N18880Beech C-24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 7, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870512012869A
- Case key
- 11320
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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.
Analysis
The pilot, unfamiliar with the airport, intended to perform a trial takeoff run to determine how the aircraft accelerated on the grass runway. During the trial run when the aircraft was about half way down the runway, the pilot felt the aircraft was ready to fly and decided to proceed with the takeoff. Lift-off at stall speed occurred about 3/4 down the runway. The aircraft would not climb or accelerate out of ground effect and struck a tree past the runway end. The aircraft was at full power, the landing gear down and flaps down 15 degrees when the collision occurred. The pilot realized, after the accident, that he attempted the takeoff downwind. The pilot stated he attempted the takeoff with a sense of urgency because of an approaching thunderstorm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18880
- Reported as
- Beech C-24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-520
- Airframe hours
- 1,492
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Brim Rose Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 18, 1986
- Destination
- MTN · Baltimore, MD
- Airport
- Flying Acres, runway 18, 2,500 × 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
- 62
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19,919 total · 102 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.