FTW95LA127 · Israel Aircraft Industries 1124
Professional Jet Management Israel Aircraft Industries 1124 · Accident: fire before flight
From Denver International Airport (DEN) to Denver International Airport (DEN)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW95LA127
- 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
- Unknown
Israel Aircraft Industries 1124
- Aircraft type
- Israel 1124
- 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
- N66JE
- Operator
- Professional Jet Management
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Denver International Airport (DEN)To Denver International Airport (DEN)
- 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
- Prior to flight
- 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
- Fire
- 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
- Oxygen system › Fire
- Oxygen system › Leak
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING PREFLIGHT OF THE AIRPLANE, THE FIRST OFFICER OPENED THE MAIN OXYGEN SUPPLY VALVE IN THE COCKPIT AND HEARD A LOUD HISSING SOUND. ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER, THE COCKPIT WAS ENGULFED IN FLAMES, BUT THE COPILOT WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE. HE EXITED THE AIRPLANE UNINJURED. THE FIRE MELTED THE OXYGEN SYSTEM PRESSURE REDUCER-REGULATOR ASSEMBLY, BURNED A HOLE IN THE RIGHT FORWARD SIDE WALL OF THE AIRPLANE, AND CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO THE CABIN INTERIOR BEFORE IT WAS EXTINGUISHED BY RAMP PERSONNEL. A LABORATORY ANALYSIS DISCLOSED THE PRESENCE OF OIL IN A 'DEPOSIT' FOUND ON THE INTERIOR OF THE OXYGEN CYLINDER.
Probable cause
AN OXYGEN LEAK AT THE OXYGEN SYSTEM PRESSURE REDUCER-REGULATOR ASSEMBLY, RESULTING IN A CREW COMPARTMENT FIRE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW95LA127
- Event ID
- 20001207X02973
- Case number
- FTW95LA127
- 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: f2f258c0c7969763d0dd7518df26a3062311dad36b3e0ba296c43eb9f1b2d550; retrieved 2026-09-23T00:13:47.480Z.