- Date
- April 27, 1982, 14:50 local (19:50 UTC)
- Place
- Roanoke, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6502TBeech B23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820427011999A
- Case key
- 72399
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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
Witnesses reported that the aircraft appeared to takeoff and climb normally until it reached an altitude of about 100 ft AGL. It then pitched up abruptly to about a 70 deg nose high attitude. After the pitch-up, the aircraft climbed to about 175 to 200 ft AGL, stalled, rotated about the left wing tip and entered a spin. The plane rotated about 270 deg before crashing. No preimpact malfunction or failures of the engine or flight controls were found. Two metallurgical examinations of the seat tracks and seat locking mechanisms were made. Reports of these examinations concluded that the left (student pilot's) seat was not in a fixed position during impact. There was evidence that it had traveled to an extreme aft position before the plane crash. The left seat locking mechanism operated normally when checked after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6502T
- Reported as
- Beech B23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M1139
- Airframe hours
- 1,834
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2C, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Gregg K. Young, Etal
- Registered owner
- Gregg K. Young, Etal
- Departed
- 52F · Roanoke, TX
- Destination
- 52F · Roanoke, TX
- Airport
- 52F · Aero Valley, runway 17, 3,500 × 40 ft, macadam
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,055 total · 3 in this make and model · 815 as pilot in command · 113 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 172 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 30 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.