- Date
- April 6, 1992, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Valley City, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N441BBeech K35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920406009329A
- Case key
- 15423
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Probable cause
Failure by airport personnel to remove the snow ridge.
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 airplane struck a ridge of ice during takeoff roll. The 6-inch obstacle was obscured by windblown grass and indistinguishable from the sod runway. The ice was the compacted residue of snow plowed from an intersecting paved runway which went unnoticed until the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N441B
- Reported as
- Beech K35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-5943
- Airframe hours
- 3,666
- Engine
- Continental IO-470C, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lewis, Asle K.
- Registered owner
- Lewis, Asle K.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 8, 1991 · 82 hours before
- Destination
- ND34 · Lisbon, ND
- Airport
- 6D8 · Barnes County, runway 26, 2,700 × 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
- 71
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 3,600 in this make and model · 5,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 20 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °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.
Other investigations on N441B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.