| Date: | Thursday 24 February 1966 |
| Time: | 13:57 |
| Type: |  Hawker Siddeley DH-125-1A |
| Owner/operator: | Kewitt Construction Company |
| Registration: | N1135K |
| MSN: | 25019 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Des Moines Airport, IA (DSM) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Des Moines Airport, IA (DSM/KDSM) |
| Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA/KOMA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Takeoff was attempted with the gust locks still engaged. The takeoff was aborted, but the plane overran runway 23 and crossed a ditch and went into a ploughed field.
PROBABLE CAUSES:
pilot in command - inadequate preflight preparation and/or planning
pilot in command - delayed action in aborting takeoff
FACTOR:
miscellaneous acts,conditions - gust locks engaged
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
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