- Date
- June 25, 1986, 09:02 local (13:02 UTC)
- Place
- Ft Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N313RMBeech 76
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860625034479A
- Case key
- 31659
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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
The plt stated that just as he rotated the acft for takeoff, the cabin door popped open. The acft then struck the ground hard in a nose down attitude, sheared off the main landing gear and slid to a stop on the runwy. According to the emergency procedures in the acft flight manual, if the door comes unlatched in flight it will trail in an open position aprx 3 inches open, you should then return to the field and land in a normal manner.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N313RM
- Reported as
- Beech 76
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- ME-76
- Airframe hours
- 1,374
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1G6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kitty Hawk Flight School
- Registered owner
- Richard W. Moss
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 3, 1986 · 64 hours before
- Destination
- CLT · Charlotte, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FLL · Ft. Lauderdale Int'L, runway 9, 8,018 × 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 354 total · 354 in this make and model · 288 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.