- Date
- June 5, 1988, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gallup, NM
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9311SBeech C23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880605018229A
- Case key
- 17475
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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 private plt was taking off with three passengers for a personal transportation flight. The airplane left the runway and only gained about 50 feet AGL according to a witness. The plt reported that the aircraft reached 200 feet AGL. The airplane stalled and fell back on the runway, the right wing struck the runway first and the landing gear was sheared off. The airplane came to rest off the runway. The desity altitude was reported by the fss as 9,200 feet. The pilot stated that his airplane was loaded to within 20 pounds of the maximum allowable gross weight. The plt also said that he had not leaned the mixture properly and felt that the engine was not producing full power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9311S
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M 1634
- Airframe hours
- 3,634
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jim C. Hitt
- Registered owner
- Hitt, James C.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 9, 1987 · 186 hours before
- Destination
- Amarillo, TX
- Airport
- GUP · Gallup Municipal, runway 24, 6,300 × 100 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 174 total · 145 in this make and model · 141 as pilot in command · 44 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GUP, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.