Britt Airways Swearingen SA226TC incident
Swearingen SA226TC · Incident: loss of control on ground/water during takeoff
From Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to University of Illinois Willard Airport (CMI)
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI82IA108
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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
Swearingen SA226TC
- Aircraft type
- Swearingen SA226
- 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
- N62Z
- Operator
- Britt Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD), Chicago, ILTo University of Illinois Willard Airport (CMI), Urbana, IL
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- Minor
Cause areas
- Landing gear, steering system › Improper
- Pilot in command › Procedures/directives, not followed
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Chicago, IL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE AIRCRAFT VEERED LEFT AT SLOW SPEED BUT THE VEER WAS CORRECTED. AT 60 KTS THE AIRCRAFT VEERED AGAIN AND WAS NOT CORRECTED. AIRCRAFT LEFT RUNWAY AND DAMAGED PROPS. SERVICE BULLETIN SA-226 NO. 103 DATED 01/20/82 STATES THAT LIMITS BE PLACED ON USE OF NOSE WHEEL STEERING AND PRE-TAKEOFF CHECK TO INSURE STEERING IS IN CASTOR MODE PRIOR TO TAKEOFF.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI82IA108
- Event ID
- 20020917X01901
- Case number
- CHI82IA108
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1982-03-31.
- API snapshot SHA-256: d6d3b75f1f42b8c97935ee601bfd7403fef30ebad07c7b072851b95c801f1d41; retrieved 2026-09-18T21:10:56.074Z.