<< >> NASA ASRS Report 839832, June 2009

Beechcraft D18 suffered a runway excursion and minor damage when the engines did not develop power at the same rate on takeoff.

Attributes
ACN	839832
Time
Date	200906
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Beechcraft / Beech Aircraft Corp Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	VFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Turbine Engine
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 20000 Flight Crew Type 400
Events
Anomaly	Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Narrative:

Upon application of takeoff power the left engine developed power sooner than the right engine. Pilot lost heading control; slid to the right side of the runway into a sloping ditch. The aircraft then did a slow-speed ground loop. This resulted in damage to the main landing gear; tail landing gear; minor skin damage to the vertical stabilizer and left wingtip.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Beechcraft D18 suffered a runway excursion and minor damage when the engines did not develop power at the same rate on takeoff.

Narrative: Upon application of takeoff power the left engine developed power sooner than the right engine. Pilot lost heading control; slid to the right side of the runway into a sloping ditch. The aircraft then did a slow-speed ground loop. This resulted in damage to the main landing gear; tail landing gear; minor skin damage to the vertical stabilizer and left wingtip.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.