- Date
- May 9, 1983, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Minonk, IL
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6039ZBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830509018319A
- Case key
- 11991
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt reported that during takeoff from a private farm strip, he had only 70 KTS as he apchd the end of the rwy. By then, there was not enough room to abort & he believed the acft had insufficient airspeed to clear wires along a roadway about 330 ft from the strip. Plowed ground was located between the end of the strip & the road & the terrain sloped slightly upward in that area. The plt elected to fly between the roadway & the wires. However, the nose gear struck the shoulder of the road. Subsequently, the plane crashed & came to rest in another plowed field beyond the road. An exam of the acft & eng revealed no evidence of a preimpact, mechanical problem. A check of the rwy revealed that the 1st few hundred feet was soft & the grass was 3 to 4 inches tall.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6039Z
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-1490
- Airframe hours
- 718
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- W.L. Richardson Manufacturing
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 3, 1982 · 91 hours before
- Destination
- SPI · Springfield, IL
- Airport
- Davidson, runway 18, 2,300 × 100 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
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,380 total · 500 in this make and model · 1,380 as pilot in command · 52 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.