- Date
- July 19, 2011, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Colville, WA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N601FDBeech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
- FAA report
- 20110719014299A
- Case key
- 81187
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadequate braking after touchdown, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot stated that during the landing roll, he did not apply maximum braking to let the airplane slow down on its own. As the airplane approached the end of the runway, the pilot realized that the airplane would not stop in time and used right engine differential power to turn left and avoid a 150-foot drop-off located at the end of the runway. The airplane veered left off the end of the runway onto a gravel area. When the airplane entered the gravel area the right main landing gear collapsed, resulting in substantial damage to the outboard edge of the aileron, and damage to the landing gear and top of the inboard wing. The pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that it had just rained on the 2,695-foot-long runway that he intended to land on. During the landing roll, the pilot applied moderate braking but he did not sense that the airplane was decelerating sufficiently. The pilot stated that his knowledge of this airport made him aware of a 150 foot drop off located at the end of the runway. With the end of the runway approaching, the pilot elected to turn left off the runway and he used the right engine to assist the turn. The airplane veered left off the end of the runway onto a gravel area. When the airplane entered the gravel area the right main landing gear collapsed, resulting in substantial damage to the outboard edge of the aileron, and damage to the landing gear and top of the inboard wing. The pilot said there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N601FD
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55 (T42A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-1772
- Airframe hours
- 4,268
- Engines
- Cont Motor IO-470 SERIES, 300 horsepower, reciprocatingCont Motor I0-470 SERIES, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Beachmont LLC
- Registered owner
- Beachmont LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 10, 2010 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- KSZT · Sandpoint, ID
- Destination
- 63S · Colville, WA
- Airport
- 63S · Colville Municipal Airport, runway 19, 2,695 × 40 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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 10, 2010
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 15,493 total · 35 in this make and model · 11,864 as pilot in command · 91 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 175° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.90 inHg
- Observed at
- KDEW, 55 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 2, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 373 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.