MIA93FA155 · Beech 95-A55
Beech 95-A55 · Accident: fire/explosion during initial climb
From an unrecorded airport to Plant City Municipal Airport (PCM)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA93FA155
- 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-A55
- 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
- N2200Q
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Plant City Municipal Airport (PCM), Plant City, FL
- 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
- Fire/explosion
- 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
- Electrical system › Undetermined
- Fuel system › Undetermined
- Wing › Exploded
- Wing › Fire
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
SHORTLY AFTER LIFT-OFF, WITNESSES OBSERVED THE LEFT WING LEADING EDGE OUTBOARD OF THE ENGINE EXPLODE AND ERUPT IN FLAMES. THE AIRCRAFT IMMEDIATELY ROLLED TO THE LEFT AND CRASHED INVERTED. THE AIRCRAFT WAS CONSUMED BY FIRE. THE LEFT PITOT TUBE AND STRUCTUAL COMPONENTS FROM THE LEFT WING WERE FOUND ON THE RUNWAY BETWEEN 300 AND 600 FT FROM WHERE THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST. THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN THE LEFT WING LEADING EDGE FORWARD OF THE FRONT WING SPAR AND JUST AFT OF THE STALL WARNING SYSTEM VANE. THE TOP SPAR CAP WAS BENT UPWARD AND THE BOTTOM SPAR CAP WAS BENT DOWNWARD. THE SPAR CAPS WERE SEPARATED FROM THE SPAR WEBB. THE WING LEADING EDGE SHEET METAL WAS RIPPED OPEN AND CURLED AFT OVER AND BELOW THE WING. THE FUEL SYSTEM AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM COMPONENTS IN THE AREA OF THE EXPLOSION HAD SUSTAINED MASSIVE FIRE DAMAGE.
Probable cause
AN EXPLOSION AND FIRE FROM UNDETERMINED FUEL AND IGNITION SOURCES IN THE LEFT WING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA93FA155
- Event ID
- 20001211X12974
- Case number
- MIA93FA155
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1993-07-15.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 41c91ddecd87e96c8c35a13c2df1c306995d59f4e141e228e55ab388786fa124; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:28:07.573Z.