DFW06FA205 · Beech BE95 A-55
Beech BE95 A-55 · Accident: loss of control in flight during initial climb
From McGregor Executive Airport (PWG) to Northwest Alabama Regional Airport (MSL)
Event
- NTSB case
- DFW06FA205
- 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
- Unknown
- 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 BE95 A-55
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 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
- N181Y
- Operator
- Harry A. Goodall · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From McGregor Executive Airport (PWG), McGregor, TXTo Northwest Alabama Regional Airport (MSL), Muscles Shores, AL
- 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
- 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/spin
- 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 › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Stall/spin, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The 5,000-hour instrument rated commercial pilot lost control of the twin-engine airplane during initial takeoff climb and crashed into the ground. The pilot was departing the uncontrolled airport on runway 17 on a planned 525-nautical mile cross-county flight. Witnesses at the airport reported that the airplane assumed a pronounced nose high attitude and rolled left, followed by the nose dropping toward the ground until ground impact. The airplane impacted the ground with the landing gear and flaps retracted. The airplane was fully serviced with fuel. The fuel was found to be clean. An extensive examination of the airplane failed to reveal any anomalies with the airframe, structure, or systems. Flight control continuity was established at the accident site. The engines were sent to the manufacturer's facility for examination, and no mechanical anomalies were found. The propellers were also shipped to the manufacturer's facility for examination and teardown. Both propellers were rotating at a low blade angle and not feathered at the time of the impact. Blade damage was consistent with both propellers operating with power on at the time of the impact. No mechanical defects were noted with either propeller. No anomalies were found during the autopsy and toxicological tests were normal. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, with visibility in excess of 10 miles, and wind was from 140 degrees at 8 knots.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed resulting in a stall and loss of control of the airplane.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW06FA205
- Event ID
- 20060905X01283
- Case number
- DFW06FA205
- 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, coordinates. 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: 9b0735bd49116c9efa6f7378a3df042e5303932884d80162a28812fa2bec031b; retrieved 2026-09-20T17:04:18.629Z.