- Date
- January 13, 2017, 16:00 local (Jan 14, 2017, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Coalinga, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N795DEBeech B200
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 4, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20170113000359A
- Case key
- 94617
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.
Findings · 3
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 reported that, during the takeoff roll on a narrow runway about 70 to 80 knots, he noticed that the engines were not at full power. He advanced the throttles "a little further," but when he did so, the left main landing gear dropped off the left side of the runway into soft mud. Subsequently, the airplane veered off the runway to the left, the nose gear collapsed, and the airplane stopped in the mud. The fuselage and engine firewalls sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the takeoff roll on a narrow runway about 70 to 80 knots, he noticed that the engines were not at full power. The pilot further reported that he advanced the throttles "a little further," but when he did so, the left main landing gear dropped off the left side of the runway into soft mud. Subsequently, the airplane veered off the runway to the left, the nose gear collapsed, and the airplane stopped in the mud. The fuselage and engine firewalls sustained substantial damage. The pilot did not report any preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N795DE
- Reported as
- Beech B200 (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BB-1510
- Engines
- P&W PT6A, turbo propP&W PT6A, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Optimal Aviation Services
- Registered owner
- Devine Organics LLC.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 5CA7 · Five Points, CA
- Destination
- VIS · Visalia, CA
- Airport
- 5CA7 · Agro-West, runway 16, 3,000 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 66
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 5, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 5-point
- Flight hours
- 16,700 total · 120 in this make and model · 9,300 as pilot in command · 70 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- KNLC, 14 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 13, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 384 KB 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.