ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 294944
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| Date: | Saturday 6 December 2003 |
| Time: | 04:39 LT |
| Type: |  Socata TBM700 |
| Owner/operator: | Quest Diagnostics Inc. |
| Registration: | N700QD |
| MSN: | 174 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2001 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2568 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-64 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Reading, Pennsylvania -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Reading Regional Airport/Spaatz Field, PA (RDG/KRDG) |
| Norwood Memorial Airport, MA (OWD/KOWD) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airplane departed while it was snowing. The pilot reported that becoming airborne, the airplane, "...began to shake severely...." The pilot tried to climb; however, the airplane would not climb and it continued to settle. The pilot performed a forced landing in an field, about 3,200 feet from the departure end of the runway. The company director of operations (D/O) reported that when he examined the airplane about 45 minutes later, there was rough granular ice on the top surface of the wing that conformed to the outline of the fuel tanks. The rough granular ice was not found on the horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported that he elected not to use liquid deicing fluid on the wings because the snow was blowing off of the top of the wings when the airplane was pulled from the hangar. The D/O further reported that the airplane had been refueled with 177 gallons about 2 hours prior to departure and then the airplane was placed in an unheated hangar with the door open. The fuel came from a truck that had been kept in a heated hangar.
Probable Cause: The pilot's improper decision to not apply de-icing fluid to the wings prior to takeoff, which resulted in snow/ice contamination on the of the wings, a stall mush, and a forced landing in an open field.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB NYC04LA044
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 12-Oct-2022 16:04 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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