- Date
- November 18, 1990, 13:31 local (18:31 UTC)
- Place
- Caldwell, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N38PKBeech B36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901118051499A
- Case key
- 36845
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Probable cause
Premature rotation and an inadvertent stall. Factors include lack of total experience in this type of aircraft.
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 take off and immediately after rotation the pilot had difficulty in controlling the airplane. He said he retracted the landing gear in an attempt to gain speed. Withesses saw the airplane in a nose high attitude, roll left and right, stall, then descend to the ground. The FAA inspector found no discrepancies with the engine or the airframe.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N38PK
- Reported as
- Beech B36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA 467
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-VB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mathiv Assy Aircraft, doing business as United Corp. Service Inc.
- Destination
- HTO · East Hampton, NY
- Airport
- cdw · essex county, runway 4, 4,553 × 80 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,184 total · 10 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 12 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 21 °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.