May Also Have Been Overloaded
From the NTSB:
On August 3, 2004, at 1159 central daylight time, an Aerostar
PA-60-601P twin-engine airplane, N601BV, was destroyed shortly
after take off from Runway 16 (a 3,930- foot-long and 70-foot-wide
asphalt runway) at Lakeway Airpark (3R9), Austin, Texas. The
commercial pilot and five passengers (three adults and two
children) sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was registered to
and operated by Aviation Flight Standards, LLC, Wilmington,
Delaware. A visual flight rules (VFR) flight plan was filed for the
flight that departed Lakeway, about 1158, and was destined for
Wylie Post Airport (PWA), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Visual
meteorological conditions prevailed for the business flight
conducted under 14 Code of Federal Re