- Date
- December 19, 2005, 05:45 local (13:45 UTC)
- Place
- Fallon, NV
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N3199HBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report March 28, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20051219030439A
- Case key
- 62977
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to abort the takeoff. A factor in the accident was the snow covered runway.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The airplane overran the end of a snow covered runway during the takeoff ground roll and collided with sagebrush and a fence. The pilot had landed uneventfully at the airport to pickup two passengers. He observed that there was about 3 inches of snow on the runway but it was not snowing at the time. During the takeoff roll he had difficulty getting the plane out of the snow. As the airplane approached the end of the runway the airspeed dissipated, and the airplane continued off the end of the runway and collided with sagebrush and a fence. The pilot stated that he did not abort the takeoff in time to avoid departing the end of the runway.
Factual narrative
On December 19, 2005, at 0545 Pacific standard time, a Beech A36, N3199H, ran off the end of the snow covered runway and collided with obstacles during takeoff at the Dixie Valley private airport near Fallon, Nevada. Fallon Airmotive operated the airplane under the provisions of 14 CFR Part 135. The commercial pilot and his two passengers were not injured; the airplane was substantially damaged. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a company flight plan had been filed.
The pilot stated that he had landed uneventfully at Dixie Valley to pickup two passengers. He observed that there was about 3 inches of snow on the runway but it was not snowing at the time. During the takeoff roll he had difficulty getting the plane out of the snow. As the airplane approached the end of the runway the airspeed had dissipated, and the airplane continued off the end of the runway in to sagebrush and a fence. The pilot stated that he did not abort the takeoff in time to avoid departing the end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3199H
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E2891
- Engine
- Continental IO-550B, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Fallon Airmotive
- Registered owner
- Dan Urquhart
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Fallon, NV
- Destination
- KFLX · Fallon, NV
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- NONE · Dixie Valley, runway 34, 4,000 × 70 ft, asphalt
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 6,500 total · 5,000 in this make and model · 200 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 30 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.