Air Midwest Fairchild/Swearingen SA226TC incident
Fairchild/Swearingen SA226TC · Incident: overrun
From Denver International Airport (DEN) to C · Wichita, KS
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN82IA192
- 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
Fairchild/Swearingen SA226TC
- Aircraft type
- Fairchild/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
- N5471M
- Operator
- Air Midwest
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Denver International Airport (DEN), Denver, COTo C · Wichita, KS
- 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
- Other
- 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
- Overrun
- 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, normal brake system › Engaged
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING TAKEOFF ON A MAINTENANCE FERRY FLIGHT, WITH A MECHANIC FLYING FROM THE RIGHT SEAT, THE AIRCRAFT WOULD NOT ACCELERATE ABOVE V1 AND WOULD NOT ROTATE EVEN WITH FULL AFT YOKE. THE CAPTAIN ABORTED THE TAKEOFF AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS STOPPED AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY WITH THE RIGHT GEAR ON THE OVERRUN AREA. AFTER THE AIRCRAFT STOPPED, CREWMEMBERS EXTINGUISHED TWO SMALL FIRES IN THE MAIN GEAR BRAKES. INVESTIGATION DID NOT REVEAL THE REASON THE AIRCRAFT WOULD NOT ACCELERATE, HOWEVER IT WAS NOTED THAT BOTH MAIN BRAKE ASSEMBLIES HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO EXTREME HEAT AND RAPID COOLING. IN ADDITION, ALL OF THE BRAKE PUCKS WERE WORN THIN. THIS DAMAGE WAS CONSISTENT WITH TAKING OFF WITH THE PARKING BRAKE ENGAGED OR INADVERTENT APPLICATION OF THE TOE BRAKES DURING TAKEOFF ROLL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN82IA192
- Event ID
- 20020917X04526
- Case number
- DEN82IA192
- 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: 58e4898e738abb0dc64b9052701a28cb6991a529d92289b445e17fd772d0fd13; retrieved 2026-09-18T21:06:40.443Z.