- Date
- February 20, 1982, 19:30 local (Feb 21, 1982, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Huntington, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N291TBeech 56TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report February 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820220001529A
- Case key
- 71118
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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
During a night touch and go landing, the aircraft veered left and struck a snowberm as the pilot was adding power to takeoff. Snowberms were located inside of the runway lights making the usable runway less than 75 ft and possibly restricting the lighting. The pilot reported that the aircraft suddenly veered as the throttles were slowly moved through about 1/2 of their travel. He said that the plane hit the snowbank before he could exert enough right rudder and differential power to hold it on the runway. The left gear was sheared off and came to rest near the runway centerline. The nose and right gear collapsed as the aircraft went off of the runway. The pilot stated he thought the wing tip caught the snowberm and/or the left main gear collapsed prior to contacting the snowberm. No impact damage to the left wing was reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N291T
- Reported as
- Beech 56TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TG13
- Airframe hours
- 1,500
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-541-E, 380 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- W. F. Ungemach
- Registered owner
- W. F. Ungemach
- Departed
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Destination
- Huntington, IN
- Airport
- 03C · Huntington Muni, runway 27, 3,700 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Invalid Medical for flight
- Flight hours
- 1,636 total · 289 in this make and model · 1,485 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 280° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 95 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.