NYC99LA002 · Foreit SUPER CAT
Foreit SUPER CAT · Accident: vortex turbulence encountered during initial climb
From Waterbury Oxford Airport (OXC) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC99LA002
- 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
Foreit SUPER CAT
- Aircraft type
- Foreit SUPER CAT
- 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
- N132TF
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Waterbury Oxford Airport (OXC), Oxford, CTTo 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
- Initial climb
- 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
- Vortex turbulence encountered
- 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 › Aircraft control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Seat belt, not used
- Pilot in command › Shoulder harness, not used
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Middlebury, CT, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
The airplane had an open cockpit, and the pilot was known to fly without his seatbelt and shoulder harness fastened. The accident airplane took off moments after a Hawker 1000 business jet. The pilot's remains were found about 1 mile north of the airport, and the airplane was later found about 845 feet north of the pilot's position, on the same bearing from the airport. There was no evidence of mechanical malfunction, and there was a strong odor of fuel at the site. The shoulder harness, seat belts and buckles were inspected, and found intact and unfastened. There was no sign of belt stretching, fatigue or overload, nor any scratch marks on the metal buckles or attaching hardware. When buckled, there was only a little slack between the seat belt straps and the seat, not enough to be able to secure a person in the seat.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to utilize his seat belt and shoulder harness.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC99LA002
- Event ID
- 20001211X11327
- Case number
- NYC99LA002
- 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: f80f823390a8827e67d5785674ca85b4eaabe7e664404180b2cc9b2767558152; retrieved 2026-09-20T22:23:05.971Z.