- Date
- December 20, 1982, 20:15 local (Dec 21, 1982, 03:15 UTC)
- Place
- Gillette, WY
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2671VSwearingen SA-227AC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report December 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821220066619A
- Case key
- 70831
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Directional control was lost in the early stage of the takeoff roll. The acft departed the rwy 400 ft down the rwy & travelled 85 ft off the side of the rwy. One rwy light was destroyed. The acft had come from the factory equipped with an anti-skid brake system. The system was replaced with a standard braking system prior to the acft's first passenger flt. During this process hydraulic lines attached to the parking brake shuttle valve under the instrument panel area were inadvertently reversed, allowing braking action to take place on the opposite landing gear of the brake pedal being depressed. The flt crew was unaware of this condition since they had been using asymmetrical thrust for directional control until this takeoff.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2671V
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA-227AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AC-437
- Engine
- Garrett TPE331, 1,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Pioneer Airlines
- Registered owner
- Pioneer Airlines
- Departed
- C · Denver, WY
- Destination
- C · Gillette, WY
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- GCC · Gillette Campbelll County, runway 15, 6,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,752 total · 900 in this make and model · 1,688 as pilot in command · 340 in the last 90 days · 152 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 210° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Temperature
- 99 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GCC
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N2671V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.