- Date
- April 27, 1990, 14:48 local (18:48 UTC)
- Place
- Danbury, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N168CCBeech Baron 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900427012899A
- Case key
- 36635
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Probable cause
Pilot factor in that the pilot elected to abort the takeoff with insufficient r/w remaining to stop the aircraft on the runway and collided with a fence, car & van.
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
During takeoff roll the aircraft catapulated slightly as it crosed over an intersecting r/w and the door popped open. The pilot aborted the takeoff and set the plane back onto the runway, but it continued to roll off the end of the runway into a fence and hit a passing auto which in turn hit a van. The aircraft came to rest just short of a concrete fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N168CC
- Reported as
- Beech Baron 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH1473
- Airframe hours
- 486
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-C, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bedford Flight Services
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 11, 1989 · 146 hours before
- Departed
- DXR · Danbury, CT
- Destination
- 5B5 · Bennington, VT
- Airport
- runway 36, 3,135 × 0 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 59
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,038 total · 424 in this make and model · 817 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.