- Date
- March 21, 1991, 06:51 local (14:51 UTC)
- Place
- Burbank, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N711RYBeech 55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910321006669A
- Case key
- 26990
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudged the liftoff speed, and prematurely rotated the aircraft for takeoff.
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
After traveling about 1,000 ft on its takeoff roll, the aircraft was seen by witnesses as beginning its rotation. Tower personnel reported they could see the belly of the aircraft. The aircraft rolled left, its left wing contacted the runway, and it continued to an inverted position. The aircraft slid down the runway and then veered off on to the grass on the north side of the runway. The aircraft came to a rest, inverted, about 100 ft off the runway and about 1,380 ft from the location where the takeoff roll began. The aircraft operating handbook indicated the normal takeoff distance to the point of rotation and liftoff should be between 1,350 and 1,400 ft. this distance was computed using the aircraft's weight and the reported weather at the time of the accident. A departing Boeing 737 was cleared for takeoff about 5 minutes prior to the accident aircraft's takeoff roll on the opposite runway. The winds were calm.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N711RY
- Reported as
- Beech 55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-345
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Pacific Air Charter
- Registered owner
- Alvin R. Moorman
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Destination
- MYF · San Diego, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BUR · Burbank, runway 8, 6,074 × 150 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
- 27
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,780 total · 32 in this make and model · 1,661 as pilot in command · 130 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- BUR, 1 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.