- Date
- May 12, 1990, 15:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Los Banos, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N75BVBeech N35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900512015699A
- Case key
- 26802
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during the takeoff roll.
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
When the pilot released the brakes for the takeoff, the aircraft veered off the left side of the runway and collided with a VASI light.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75BV
- Reported as
- Beech N35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D6752
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Partelow, Robert L.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- LSN
- Destination
- SNS · Salinas, CA
- Airport
- LSN · Los Banos Muni, runway 32, 3,000 × 75 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 313 total · 271 in this make and model · 263 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- MCE, 25 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.