ATL95FA021 · Beech 95B55
Beech 95B55 · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From N70 · Perkasie, PA to 9A1 · Covington, GA
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL95FA021
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Beech 95B55
- 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
- N8933M
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From N70 · Perkasie, PATo 9A1 · Covington, GA
- 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 · IFR missed approach
- 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
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- 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
- Fuel exhaustion
- 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
- All engines
- Fluid, fuel › Exhaustion
- Pilot in command › Airspeed(vs), not maintained
- Pilot in command › Fuel consumption calculations, inaccurate
- Pilot in command › Weather evaluation, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Wind information, not used
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Mableton, GA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT OBTAINED TWO WEATHER BRIEFINGS PRIOR TO DEPARTING ON THE CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT. FORECASTED EN ROUTE WINDS WHICH WERE HIGH WERE PROVIDED. THE PILOT DID NOT CHANGE HIS ESTIMATED TIME EN ROUTE WHEN HE FILED AN IFR FLIGHT PLAN. DESTINATION WEATHER WAS FORECASTED TO IMPROVE; HOWEVER, THE FSS SPECIALIST STATED THAT HE DOUBTED THERE WOULD BE IMPROVEMENT. DESTINATION WEATHER WAS NOT REQUESTED AGAIN UNTIL NEAR THE ARRIVAL AIRPORT. AT THE DESTINATION, A VOR APPROACH WAS ATTEMPTED, EVEN THOUGH WEATHER WAS BELOW MINIMUM DESCENT ALTITUDE. A MISSED APPROACH FOLLOWED, AND THE PILOT PROCEEDED TO THE ALTERNATE AIRPORT. EN ROUTE, HE REPORTED LOW FUEL. AN ILS APPROACH AT THE ALTERNATE ENDED IN A MISSED APPROACH WHEN THE PILOT REPORTED HE DID NOT SEE THE RUNWAY. WEATHER WAS AT MINIMUMS. DURING THE SECOND APPROACH TO THE ALTERNATE, THE PILOT REPORTED THAT ONE ENGINE HAD QUIT. THE SECOND ENGINE QUIT DURING AN ATTEMPT TO BEGIN A THIRD APPROACH. FOUR AND ONE-HALF GALLONS OF FUEL WERE DRAINED FROM THE AIRPLANE AT THE ACCIDENT SITE.
Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate weather evaluation in that he failed to account for forecasted winds at altitude that resulted in an increased time en route and fuel exhaustion.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL95FA021
- Event ID
- 20001206X02545
- Case number
- ATL95FA021
- 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: 93d24532eb8a2cef95629faaa06f41bbad5ad461c2916086fbd87b6a8ee6f5d0; retrieved 2026-09-20T23:55:50.949Z.