FTW99LA050 · Beech BE-95-A55
Beech BE-95-A55 · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during takeoff
From HQZ to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW99LA050
- 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
- 0 · 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 BE-95-A55
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft BE-95
- 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
- N6DL
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From HQZTo 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
- Takeoff · roll/run
- 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 on ground/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Dual student › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Emergency procedure, performed
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Supervision, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The multi-engine airplane veered off the runway during a practice engine failure on takeoff maneuver [V1 Cut] during an instructional flight. The student taxied the airplane to the runway, performed the takeoff checklist, and commenced the takeoff roll. After assuring that full power had been applied, the instructor covered the mixture controls with a plastic checklist, and pulled the right engine's mixture lever to the 'idle cutoff' position. The student was not able to maintain directional control, and before the instructor could assume the controls, the aircraft departed the runway on the right side onto soft, muddy ground. Subsequently, the nose gear collapsed, and the left propeller struck the ground. The student pilot had a total of 1,887 hours of flight time, of which, 4.7 hours were in multi-engine airplanes. He holds a commercial pilot certificate with ratings in single engine airplanes (land & sea), and a flight instructor certificate with an instructor rating in single engine airplanes.
Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during a simulated engine failure during takeoff maneuver and the instructor's inadequate supervision. Factors were; the student's lack of total flight time in multiengine airplanes, and the soft ground in which the nose landing gear became embedded when the airplane departed the runway surface.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW99LA050
- Event ID
- 20001211X11562
- Case number
- FTW99LA050
- 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: 7625e2a6f947f2e1e0e7fd2ec015109e92bc9c915ed92fef6a1d66232a495b77; retrieved 2026-09-22T16:09:18.994Z.