- Date
- June 27, 1996, 19:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Clinton, NC
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N112GBeech B55B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 16, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960627015369A
- Case key
- 38038
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Probable cause
a loss of right engine power for undetermined reasons, resulting in the pilot loosing control of the airplane and impact with tress.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The flight had lifted off of runway 6, and had climb to an altitude of about 200 feet above the ground, when the airplane's right engine lost power, drifted to the right, and struck trees. The pilot stated, there was no warning of any engine trouble, and that he did not have time to feather the propeller, or retract the landing gear. He further stated, '...shortly after leaving the runway the engine quit and the plane started veering right toward the wooded area and went down....' According to the passenger, 'shortly after taking off...the plane started quick[ly] dropping and jerking.' The pilot told her to hold on, and 'took the plane down in wooded area.' Both engines were test run without any discrepancies.
Factual narrative
On June 27, 1996, about 1945 eastern daylight time, a Beech B55B, N112G, registered to a private owner, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91, personal flight, crashed in the vicinity of Clinton, North Carolina. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The airplane was destroyed. The commercial pilot received minor injuries, and one passenger was not injured.
The flight, which was en route to Concord, North Carolina, had lifted off of runway 6, and had climbed to an altitude of about 200 feet above the ground, when the pilot reported that the airplane's right engine lost power. The airplane drifted to the right, and struck trees. The pilot stated, there was no warning of any engine trouble, and that he did not have time to feather the propeller, or retract the landing gear. He further stated, "...shortly after leaving the runway the engine quit and the plane started veering right toward the wooded area and went down...."
According to the passenger, "shortly after taking off...the plane started quick[ly] dropping and jerking." The pilot told her to hold on, and "took the plane down in wooded area."
Both engines were test run under the supervision of the FAA, at Piedmont Aviation's facilities, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on August 13-14, 1996. Both engines ran without any discrepancies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N112G
- Reported as
- Beech B55B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-769
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jim Palmer Aicraft Sales
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- 3N8 · Concord, NC
- Airport
- CTZ · Sampson County, runway 6, 4,220 × 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
- 28
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,300 total · 250 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FAY, 40 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.