ATL82IA051 · Beech 200
Beech 200 · Incident: airframe, component or system failure during initial climb
From Birmingham, AL to Jackson, MS
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL82IA051
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Beech 200
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 200
- 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
- N205SG
- Operator
- South Central Bell Telephone
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Birmingham, ALTo Jackson, MS
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
- Flt control syst, elevator trim/tab control › Undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
WHILE CLIMBING THRU 500 FT AGL ON TAKEOFF, THE MANUAL PITCH TRIM STRUCK AT 1 OR 2 UNITS NOSE UP. USE OF THE THREE TRIM DISCONNECT SWITCHES DID NOT REMEDY THE PROBLEM. ABOUT 30 SECS LATER, THE PITCH TRIM RAN AWAY NOSE UP AND WOULD NOT STOP UNTIL THE PITCH TRIM CIRCUIT BREAKER WAS PULLED. MANUAL TRIM REMAINED INOP. THE PROBLEM CLEARED UP 2 OR 3 MINS LATER. SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION DISCLOSED EVIDENCE OF THE MANUAL PITCH TRIM CHAIN BINDING ON A STRINGER IN THE PEDESTAL. NO OTHER MALFUNCTIONS WERE IDENTIFIED. THE AIRCRAFT HAD A HISTORY OF MALFUNCTIONING MANUAL PITCH TRIM.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL82IA051
- Event ID
- 20020917X01769
- Case number
- ATL82IA051
- 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, damage. 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: 06810e5bd4eccc9397339d38e9d785e80f063e4c6da2f1bcef0c9deff73a1153; retrieved 2026-09-24T03:42:10.511Z.