- Date
- April 11, 1991, 12:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Punta Gorda, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N7231LBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910411010139A
- Case key
- 32850
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Probable cause
Delay of the pilot to abort the takeoff from the private grass airstrip resulting in the airplane overrunning the runway and colliding with a ditch.
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.
Overrun
Abort - delayedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditch
Analysis
The plt aborted the takeoff from the pvt 1,800-FT long grass strip but was unable to stop the acft before it ran off the end of the rwy into a ditch. There was no reported engine failure or malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7231L
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-2241
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Braukman & Sullivan
- Registered owner
- Braukman & Sullivan
- Airport
- NONE · Braukman Ranch, runway 5, 1,800 × 100 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,980 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 2,980 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY, 16 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.