- Date
- January 16, 1985, 07:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- Riverside, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6020PBeech C24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850116018549A
- Case key
- 24458
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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
An aborted takeoff was attempted by the plt when the acft failed to sustain flight. He landed on the side of the runway with one wheel in the grass and realized too late that normal braking was not sufficient to stop the landing roll before the acft went over an embankment and struck a hidden concrete pipe. A windshift had just occurred & there were reports of turbulence & windshear around the arpt. The plt noted a quartering tailwind partway down the rwy. An earlier takeoff had also been aborted by the plt, who returned to the FBO & requested an acft with more pwr. When the request was not honored he accepted a second acft of the same type, which had earlier failed to sustain flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6020P
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC653
- Airframe hours
- 1,652
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Riverside Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 31, 1984 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- RAL · Riverside, CA
- Destination
- SMX · Santa Maria, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RAL · Riverside, runway 34, 2,850 × 50 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,480 total · 160 in this make and model · 2,300 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 65 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RAL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.