LAX99LA124 · Beech D95A
Beech D95A · Accident: loss of control in flight during landing
From Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) to Kawaihapai Airfield (HDH)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX99LA124
- 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
- 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
Beech D95A
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 95
- 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
- N199Q
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), Honolulu, HITo Kawaihapai Airfield (HDH)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- 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
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- First occurrenceThe 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
- Dual student › Aircraft control, not maintained
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Supervision, inadequate
- Rudder › Restricted
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The instructor and pilot trainee were performing a simulated single engine approach with the right engine throttle retarded. The CFI reported that they experienced a strong crosswind gust just prior to touchdown and the left wing was lifted upward. He stated that all efforts to regain control with the full left aileron and left rudder failed. The airplane continued to bank just above the ground. The right wing struck the ground and the aircraft landed hard. The landing gear was sheared off and the aircraft came to rest upright 180 degrees from the direction of flight. The pilot reported that the winds at the time of the accident were from about 060 degrees with gusts to 25 knots. The pilot trainee reported that he was on the controls until the wing struck the ground. He further reported that he had not tried to apply power or attempt a go-around. A ground witness who is a multiengine rated pilot, heard the aircraft call 'engine out' over the frequency while on approach. He observed that the airplane appeared to be very slow and was in a left yaw headed 20 to 30 degrees off the runway heading. The aircraft then rapidly turned right with the nose still high, and crossed over into the grass area between the runway and parallel taxiway. The right wing tip dug into the sod. The witness stated that the aircraft then impacted the ground and sheared the landing gear. A second witness, also a multiengine rated pilot, reported that he too thought that the approach seemed too slow for that type of aircraft and stated that he had not heard any power increases to try to go around. The aircraft was examined after the accident, with control system continuity established, and the rudder pedals and rudder control brackets were in place.
Probable cause
The student's failure to maintain aircraft control in the gusty crosswind conditions due to limited left yaw authority induced by the simulated single engine approach. The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight and his failure to terminate the simulated single engine approach when the aircraft encountered control difficulties were also causal.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX99LA124
- Event ID
- 20001205X00348
- Case number
- LAX99LA124
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
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. 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: c49b191f9563df02afbe176c6aa0b0ea99feea83f534d6e2dc296acea92e053a; retrieved 2026-09-22T15:39:57.267Z.