- Date
- August 6, 2025, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kingston, TN
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N500HTBeech 35-C33
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250806011259A
- Case key
- 200728
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff roll, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with haybales.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was attempting a take off from a 2,600-ft-long by 40-ft-wide, asphalt runway. He reported that during takeoff roll in calm wind, the airplane used about 800 ft of runway to accelerate to 65 mph. During that time, the pilot maintained a runway centerline direction with “heavy right rudder.” As he moved his right hand from the throttle lever to the yoke to rotate, the airplane turned hard left (about 45°) off the runway and struck haybales, coming to rest upright. Examination of the wreckage by a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed substantial damage to both wings. The inspector did not find any preimpact mechanical malfunctions to explain the airplane turning left during the takeoff roll. The left main landing gear tire was properly inflated. The left tire rotated, and no brake anomalies were noted. The inspector also established continuity from the rudder pedals, to the nosewheel and rudder steering, with no binding noted. The airplane was not equipped with a rudder trim.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N500HT
- Reported as
- Beech 35-C33 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CD-909
- Built
- 1965
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 23, 2025 · 6,474 hours before
- Destination
- MNV · Madisonville, TN
- Airport
- 12TN · Meadowlake, runway 23, 2,600 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, ADS-B
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
- 64
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 7, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 491 total · 390 in this make and model · 445 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.28 inHg
- Observed at
- TYS, 27 nm away
- METAR
- KTYS 061551Z VRB04KT 10SM BKN022 26/21 A3028 RMK AO2
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.