MIA94FA141 · Beech 95-55
Beech 95-55 · Accident: loss of engine power on approach
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA94FA141
- 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
- 1 · 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 95-55
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 55
- 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
- N9319Y
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- 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
- Approach · VFR go-around
- 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 engine power
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Wrong propeller feathered, inadvertent
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
ON THE DAY BEFORE THE ACCIDENT, ONE OF THE OWNERS EXPERIENCED HIGH CYLINDER HEAD TEMP IN THE RIGHT ENGINE DURING TAKEOFF. HE RETURNED TO THE ARPT, AND SHUT THE ENGINE DOWN DURING TAXI IN. THIS WAS THE SECOND FLIGHT SINCE ANNUAL. HE REPORTED THIS TO THIS PLT, WHO WAS THE OTHER OWNER, WHO STATED HE WOULD LOOK AT THE ACFT. ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT THE PLT WAS OBSERVED LOOKING AT SOMETHING UNDER THE INSTRUMENT PANEL AND THEN DEPART. THE ACFT WAS THEN OBSERVED MAKING A DOWNWIND APPCH TO ANOTHER AIRPORT AND EXECUTE A GO-AROUND. THE LDG GEAR REMAINED DOWN AND THE FLAPS WERE RAISED TO THE APCH POSITION. AN ENGINE WAS HEARD TO LOSE POWER AND WITNESSES OBSERVED THE LEFT ENGINE NOT OPERATING BUT THE PROPELLER TURNING, AND THE RIGHT ENGINE PRODUCING FULL POWER. THE RIGHT ENGINE WAS THEN HEARD TO SLOW DOWN AND THE ACFT DESCENDED AND HIT TREES. THE RIGHT PROPELLER WAS FOUND IN THE FEATHERED POSITION. NO EVIDENCE TO INDICATE PRECRASH MECHANICAL FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF EITHER ENGINE OR PROPELLER WAS FOUND.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S FEATHERING OF THE WRONG PROPELLER AFTER AN ENGINE FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASON(S).
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA94FA141
- Event ID
- 20001206X01338
- Case number
- MIA94FA141
- 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: 7f25b275b34397b8c3199551d90949fe14c9a4dd010620cd84f6d255f02d4434; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:09:48.539Z.