- Date
- November 28, 1991, 18:00 local (Nov 29, 1991, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- San Andreas, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N421DPCessna 421B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report April 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911128053699A
- Case key
- 27511
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection and his failure to follow the airplane's checklist. A contributing factor was the dark night condition.
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
The pilot indicated that during his night time preflight inspection he did not pay close enough attention to following the airplane's checklist, and he failed to remove the control column's elevator gust lock. During the ground roll portion of his attempted takeoff, the pilot felt the presence of the lock and aborted the takeoff. Insufficient runway remained to decelerate. The airplane overran the runway's departure end and collided with a fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N421DP
- Reported as
- Cessna 421B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421B-0353
- Engine
- Continental GTSI0-520, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stanford P. Kibbe
- Registered owner
- Stanford P. Kibbe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- TRK · Truckee, CA
- Airport
- 003 · Calaveras, runway 31, 3,600 × 60 ft
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
- 62
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 8,445 total · 150 in this make and model · 7,635 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N421DP · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.