- Date
- October 25, 1999, 16:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Corona, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N7674NBeech D55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 8, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19991025030789A
- Case key
- 47658
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during takeoff.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The pilot said that he lost control of the aircraft as he rotated for liftoff. The airplane then veered off the right side of the runway, traveled through a grass infield area, and collided with a wall and a fence. The pilot reported that he had recently purchased the airplane and had only 6 hours of flight time in the D55. The pilot's prior multiengine experience was obtained in a Cessna 310. An FAA inspector examined the airplane and found no mechanical discrepancies with the controls, brakes, or engines. Tire tracks were identified, which led to the resting point of the aircraft. The tire tracks began at the approach end of the runway as both mains and the nose wheel. At a point 600 feet from the beginning of the takeoff roll, the nose tire track disappeared and the main gear tracks began a sharp deviation to the right and continued to the brick wall. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures experienced with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On October 25, 1999, at 1600 hours Pacific daylight time, a Beech D55, N7674N, veered off runway 25 during the takeoff ground roll and collided with a brick wall and a fence at the Corona, California, airport. The aircraft was owned and operated by the pilot and was originating as a local area personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which was conducted under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 91 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. The aircraft sustained substantial damage. The private pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured.
The pilot told a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector from the Riverside, California, Flight Standards District Office, that he lost control of the aircraft as he rotated for liftoff. The airplane then veered off the right side of the runway, traveled through a grass infield area, and collided with the wall and fence. The pilot reported that he had recently purchased the airplane and had only 6 hours of flight time in the D55. The pilot's prior multiengine experience was obtained in a Cessna 310.
The FAA inspector examined the airplane and found no mechanical discrepancies with the controls, brakes, or engines. Tire tracks were identified, which led to the resting point of the aircraft. The tire tracks began at the approach end of the runway as both mains and the nose wheel. At a point 600 feet from the beginning of the takeoff roll, the nose tire track disappeared and the main gear tracks began a sharp deviation to the right and continued to the brick wall.
In his written statement, the pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures experienced with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7674N
- Reported as
- Beech D55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-612
- Airframe hours
- 5,000
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas P. Simerson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1999 · 24 hours before
- Departed
- AJO
- Airport
- AJO · Corona Muni, runway 25, 3,200 × 60 ft, asphalt
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 61
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,254 total · 6 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RAL, 15 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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