- Date
- July 4, 1992, 17:09 local (Jul 5, 1992, 00:09 UTC)
- Place
- Shelter Cove, CA
- Injuries
- 4 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N929DBCessna 421B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920704023739A
- Case key
- 27675
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection of the aircraft and his failure to ensure that the control surface locks were removed prior to flight.
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 said he was on the takeoff ground roll at about 100 knots when he discovered that the control lock was still in place. The pilot said he attempted to remove the control lock but could not prior to the aircraft over running the departure end of the 3,400 foot long runway. The aircraft collided with a county sewage treatment building, separating the wings from the fuselage. The aircraft fuselage continued through the building and came to rest on rocks near the beach.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N929DB
- Reported as
- Cessna 421B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421B-0864
- Airframe hours
- 2,198
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-H, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Dana L. Brenneman, doing business as Golden Sierra Aviation
- Registered owner
- Golden Sierra Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 7, 1991 · 68 hours before
- Departed
- O05
- Destination
- OAK · Oakland, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OQ5 · Shelter Cove, runway 3, 3,400 × 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
- 41
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,479 total · 218 in this make and model · 2,413 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.