Integra Aviation Beech C90 A accident
Beech C90 A · Accident: wildlife encounter (non-bird) during takeoff
From Guymon Municipal Airport (GUY) to Raton Municipal Airport / Crews Field (RTN)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN26LA116
- 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
- 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
Beech C90 A
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 90
- 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
- N247MD
- Operator
- Integra Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Guymon Municipal Airport (GUY), Guymon, OKTo Raton Municipal Airport / Crews Field (RTN), Raton, NM
- Aircraft age
- About 36 years (built 1990)
- 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
- 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
- Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- 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
- Environmental issues › Physical environment
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 reported that the start-up, taxi and initial takeoff roll were normal for the air medical flight in night visual conditions. On the takeoff roll at approximately 90 knots, a white-tailed deer appeared and was moving from the right to the left between the runway and a taxiway. The pilot reported there was no time to safely abort the takeoff before impacting the deer. The airplane struck the deer with the right main landing gear leg, the airplane became airborne, and the pilot was able to return the airplane to the runway surface. The pilot then noticed he had no right brake authority and used reverse thrust to maintain runway centerline. Shortly after, the right main landing gear collapsed. The airplane came to a stop upright on the grass between the runway and a taxiway, impacting runway signage in the process. The right-wing leading edge and spar along with the right aileron sustained substantial damage from the runway signage and ground impact. The pilot reported there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airframe or the engines that would have precluded normal operation.
Probable cause
The collision with a white-tailed deer during the takeoff in night visual conditions.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN26LA116
- Event ID
- 20260217202443
- Case number
- CEN26LA116
- 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: local date, investigation status, coordinates, cause areas. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2026-02-14.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e971577e7e9dc0bf2e976c9c60bc7ebf2f6e36ffa3a396d9fcb99ba9170683e2; retrieved 2026-09-16T20:46:16.482Z.