- Date
- August 26, 2003, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bend, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6536CBeech C24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20030826023049A
- Case key
- 57785
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Probable cause
The first pilot's premature liftoff and his failure to abort the takeoff. Factors include a fence and a ditch bank located upwind of the runway.
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
The first pilot reported that shortly after takeoff the airplane settled back onto the runway. The pilot continued the takeoff roll, reporting that the airplane lifted off a second time near the departure end of the runway. He reported that shortly after takeoff, the airplane collided with a fence located at the end of the departure runway. After colliding with the fence, the airplane impacted a ditch bank approximately 250 feet beyond the runway end, eventually coming to rest west of the departure runway. No mechanical difficulties or failures that may have contributed to the accident were reported.
Factual narrative
On August 26, 2003, about 1000 Pacific daylight time, a Beech C24R, N6536C, sustained substantial damage when the airplane collided with a fence shortly after takeoff from the Juniper Air Park, Bend, Oregon. The airplane is owned by the private pilot, and was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) training flight under the provisions of Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. The first pilot, a private pilot receiving instruction, and the second pilot, an airline transport pilot/certified flight instructor, were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan had been filed.
In a written statement dated September 1, the first pilot reported that shortly after takeoff from runway 24, the airplane settled back onto the runway. The pilot continued the takeoff roll, reporting that the airplane lifted off a second time near the departure end of the runway. He reported that shortly after takeoff, the airplane collided with a fence located at the end of the departure runway. After colliding with the fence, the airplane impacted a ditch bank approximately 250 feet beyond the runway end, eventually coming to rest west of the departure runway.
No mechanical difficulties or failures that may have contributed to the accident were reported.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6536C
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC-788
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Michael A. Williamson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 5OR5 · Bend, OR
- Destination
- Bend
- Airport
- 5OR5 · Juniper Air Park, runway 24, 2,600 × 60 ft, dirt
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 673 total · 572 in this make and model · 45 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 68
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 11,488 total · 50 in this make and model · 69 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.