CEN19LA300 · Cessna 425
Downing Aviation Cessna 425 · Accident: loss of control in flight during takeoff
From Wiley Post Airport (PWA) to Wiley Post Airport (PWA)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN19LA300
- 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
- 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
Cessna 425
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 425
- 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
- N300GD
- Operator
- Downing Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Wiley Post Airport (PWA), Bethany, OKTo Wiley Post Airport (PWA), Bethany, OK
- Aircraft age
- About 39 years (built 1980)
- 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
- Defining eventThe 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
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Not determined › Not determined
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot was departing on a local flight to test a repaired autopilot. Just after takeoff, the airplane began to yaw to the left and right, and the pilot determined that directional control was not possible. The pilot decided to abort the takeoff, reduced the power to idle, and landed gear-up on the remaining runway. The airplane slid off the end of the runway onto a concrete pad, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. Examination of the flight controls and throttle quadrant controls did not reveal any anomalies. The reason for the yaw and loss of directional control after takeoff could not be determined.
Probable cause
A loss of control during the initial climb for undetermined reasons, which resulted in an aborted takeoff and runway excursion.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN19LA300
- Event ID
- 20190826X43114
- Case number
- CEN19LA300
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: 26c53b7e9cae2291776a9d90575ae13fa5c37f9c4cd93af4708ce7a494577d20; retrieved 2026-09-16T09:53:05.939Z.