ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 240550
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| Date: | Thursday 27 August 2020 |
| Time: | 06:30 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft A36 Bonanza |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N1550G |
| MSN: | E-2484 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1989 |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-550-B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Benton Field Airport (O85), Redding, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Benton Field Airport, CA (O85) |
| Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, MG (PLU/SBBH) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On August 27, 2020, about 0630 Pacific daylight time, a Beech A36 airplane, N1550G, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Redding, California. The pilot and three passengers sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations 91 personal flight.
The pilot and three passengers were departing from a 2,420-ft-long runway when the accident occurred. A witness reported that the airplane appeared to be accelerating slowly, and that it suddenly rotated and appeared to lift off slightly before settling back to the ground, which caused the nosewheel to come back down to the runway surface. The airplane rotated abruptly a second time and remained in a nose-high attitude while approaching the departure end of the runway. The witness estimated the airplane’s speed as about 60 to 65 knots as it passed his location in a nose-high attitude. The witness added that, throughout the takeoff roll, the “engine sounded like it was producing full power and the propeller was producing full rpm.
Review of security camera recordings revealed that the airplane appeared to rotate about 700 ft from the departure end of the runway and remain in a nose-high attitude. The airplane briefly became airborne about 300 ft from the departure end of the runway and remained in a nose-high attitude before it settled back onto the runway surface about 2 seconds later and continued off the departure end of the runway: a post-impact fire ensued.
Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed no evidence of any preexisting mechanical malfunction that would have precluded normal operation. A review of weight and balance information indicated that the airplane was about 23 lbs under its maximum gross weight at the time of the accident. Depending on the passenger seating configuration, which could not be determined, the airplane could have been within its center of gravity (CG) limitations or up to about 2 inches forward or about 1.75 inches aft of the CG envelope limit.
Calculated takeoff performance for an airplane within the CG envelope given the atmospheric conditions and gross weight at the time of the accident showed that the airplane would have required 1,978 ft for a no-flap takeoff with no obstacle, or 3,558 ft for a no-flap takeoff to clear a 50-ft obstacle if takeoff power was applied prior to brake release. The extent of the pilot’s Page 2 of 10 WPR20LA289preflight takeoff performance planning and his takeoff technique could not be determined based on the available information.
The circumstances of the accident are consistent with the pilot’s failure to recognize the airplane’s inadequate takeoff performance given the length of the available runway and his subsequent failure to abort the takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to recognize the airplane’s inadequate takeoff performance given the length of the available runway and to abort the takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/08/27/plane-crash-reported-benton-airpark/5643706002/
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/news/Redding-police-responding-to-plane-crash-572238321.html
https://www.kshasta.com/2020/08/27/two-people-badly-burned-in-airplane-crash-near-benton-airpark/
NTSB
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N1550G
https://photos-e1.flightcdn.com/photos/retriever/3220f95398e116b31438b0ec74291d6801f4a500 (photo)
Location
Media:
NTSB is investigating Thursday’s crash in Redding, CA involving a Beech Bonanza A-36. The NTSB is not traveling to the scene of the crash at this time.
— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) August 27, 2020
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Aug-2020 17:30 | Geno | Added |
| 27-Aug-2020 17:48 | Geno | Updated [Source] |
| 27-Aug-2020 19:18 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 28-Aug-2020 02:54 | Captain Adam | Updated [Aircraft type, Embed code] |
| 28-Aug-2020 17:38 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Destination airport, Source, Embed code] |
| 28-Aug-2020 17:53 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Aug-2020 19:28 | Captain Adam | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Aug-2020 01:08 | RobertMB | Updated [Narrative] |
| 04-Sep-2020 17:34 | aaronwk | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Sep-2020 08:30 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Accident report] |
| 16-Sep-2020 08:32 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Jun-2021 19:53 | aaronwk | Updated [Destination airport, Source] |
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