- Date
- October 4, 1992, 10:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- New Manchester, WV
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N3863NBeech 35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921004040009A
- Case key
- 37231
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to obtain adequate airspeed and abort the takeoff. The pilot's premature rotation, upsloping runway, and a tailwind are contributing factors.
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
Witnesses saw the airplane, about halfway down a 2050 feet runway, rotate, become airborne, reach an altitude of approximately 4 to 6 feet above the ground, and touchdown back onto the runway. The airplane continued the take off roll on the runway for approximately 550 feet, before lifting off the runway in a nose high attitude just prior to running out of runway pavement. The landing gear struck a tree at the departure end of the runway, went into a left descending turn and impacted the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3863N
- Reported as
- Beech 35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-1103
- Engine
- Continental E185E, 205 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mike Hansen
- Registered owner
- John T. Hanson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- 7G1
- Destination
- 1G0 · Bowling Green, OH
- Airport
- 7G1 · Herron, runway 22, 2,050 × 24 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
- 35
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 4,368 total · 800 in this make and model · 2,932 as pilot in command · 215 in the last 90 days · 72 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIT, 24 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.