- Date
- October 4, 1992, 10:56 local (15:56 UTC)
- Place
- Fayetteville, AR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N6636YBeech C24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921004040049A
- Case key
- 18591
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Probable cause
The pilot's delayed flare. A factor was the pilot's failure to properly secure the door prior to takeoff.
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
During a VFR departure the cabin door on the right side came open so the pilot elected to return to the airport for landing. The pilot was flying in the left seat when the door came open. Altitude achieved when the door came open was maintained in a modified traffic pattern during the return to the airport. During the landing the airplane struck the ground hard and collapsed the right main landing gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6636Y
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-700
- Airframe hours
- 1,848
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Proflight Inc.
- Registered owner
- Proflight Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 9, 1992 · 62 hours before
- Departed
- FYV
- Destination
- SHV · Shreveport, LA
- Airport
- FYV · Drake Field, runway 16, 6,006 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 183 total · 58 in this make and model · 119 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 54 °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.