- Date
- May 12, 2021, 14:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, OR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N51LLGulfstream American AA-5B
- Defining event
- Takeoff-rejected takeoff: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- FAA report
- 20210512008919A
- Case key
- 103089
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Probable cause
The pilot’s delayed remediation following an aborted takeoff run, which resulted in a runway overrun and collision with trees.
Findings · 4
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 reported that, he was on a long cross-country flight and had stopped at several airports along the way. He reported that during a takeoff run, he accelerated to rotation speed and heard the stall warning horn oral alert when he attempted to lift the nosewheel off the ground. The pilot elected to abort the takeoff as the airplane did not appear to be accelerating sufficiently. At the time, the airplane was about halfway down the runway. According to the pilot, as there was between 800-1,200 ft of runway remaining at the time, he retarded the throttle and applied some brake pressure, but the airplane did not decelerate as he had anticipated. The pilot recounted that he took his feet off the rudder pedals multiple times to ensure they were correctly placed. He then applied maximum pressure to the brake pedals, but the airplane overran the runway end, traversed a road, and impacted trees. The wings were substantially damaged. The pilot stated that the brake system did not perform as he had anticipated. However, postaccident examination of the brake system did not reveal any anomalies. Further, the pilot reported that he did not experience any abnormalities with the brakes when he used them to stop at other airports during other legs of the cross-country flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N51LL
- Reported as
- Gulfstream American AA-5B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AA5B0916
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 5,213.4
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Santa Barbara Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Santa Barbara Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 10, 2020 · 328.8 hours before
- Destination
- TIW · Tacoma, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 7S3 · Stark'S Twin Oaks Airpark, runway 02/20, 2,465 × 48 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot
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
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- March 8, 2020
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 488 total · 127 in this make and model · 453 as pilot in command · 27 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KHIO, 7 nm away
- METAR
- KHIO 122153Z 05007KT 10SM CLR 26/09 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP180 T02560089
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 1, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 13.1 MB 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.