FTW98FA215 · Beech 76
Beech 76 · Accident: loss of control in flight while maneuvering
From Addison Airport (ADS) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW98FA215
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Beech 76
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 76
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N6701C
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Addison Airport (ADS), Addison, TXTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Maneuvering
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Aircraft control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot of the twin engine airplane lost control of the aircraft while in the traffic pattern during a practical test for a commercial multi-engine rating. An FAA designated pilot examiner (DPE) was seated in the right seat to administer the practical test. The pilot had been provided 5 additional hours of dual instruction after he failed a previous practical test due to unsatisfactory performance of a Vmca maneuver with the same check pilot. A witness observed the airplane climbing out and executing 'a sharp right turn towards the north.' Ground scars revealed that the airplane impacted the ground left wing low in a slight nose low attitude with the gear and flaps retracted. The left engine propeller, which remained attached, did not exhibit any signs of twisting, rotational scoring or leading edge damage. The right engine propeller, which separated from the engine, exhibited leading edge gouges and chordwise scratches. The elevator trim actuator was found in the 14 degree trim down (nose up) position. Examination of the wreckage did not reveal any anomalies that would have prevented normal flight.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control resulting in an inadvertent stall while performing simulated single engine maneuvers during a practical test for a multiengine rating.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW98FA215
- Event ID
- 20001211X10050
- Case number
- FTW98FA215
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 68bbb5b26be1b773bedb73fbca09938c82aecfcd336d1c460e63827c5c4a5547; retrieved 2026-09-20T22:35:45.593Z.