MIA92LA078 · American Aviation Corp. (AAC) AA-1
American Aviation Corp. (AAC) AA-1 · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From X-16 · Tampa, FL to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA92LA078
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
American Aviation Corp. (AAC) AA-1
- Aircraft type
- American Aviation Corp (aac) AA-1
- 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
- N6222L
- Operator
- Sindi P. Miller · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From X-16 · Tampa, FLTo 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
- 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 starvation; Stall
- 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
- Pilot in command › Airspeed(vso), not maintained
- Pilot in command › Fuel tank selector position, improper
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Leesburg, FL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PRIVATE PILOT WAS MANEUVERING FOR LANDING IN VFR CONDITIONS WHEN THE ENGINE QUIT. THE PRIVATE PILOT DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND REQUESTED A DIFFERENT RUNWAY. THE PRIVATE PILOT OVERFLEW THE RUNWAY IN A LEFT TURN TO LOSE ALTITUDE. DURING THE TURN ANOTHER PILOT REPORTED SHORT FINAL FOR THE SAME RUNWAY AND WAS INFORMED BY UNICOM RADIO TO CLEAR THE AREA. THE PASSENGER WITH THE PRIVATE PILOT INFORMED HER THAT THE OTHER AIRPLANE WAS NOT TURNING AWAY. THE PRIVATE PILOT BEGAN A LEFT TURN AND ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB. THE AIRPLANE STALLED AND COLLIDED WITH THE TERRAIN. THE AIRPLANE SUSTAINED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. THE PRIVATE PILOT WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED AND THE PASSENGER RECEIVED MINOR INJURY. EXAMINATION OF THE AIRPLANE BY THE FAA REVEALED THE RIGHT FUEL TANK WAS EMPTY AND NOT RUPTURED. THE FUEL SELECTOR WAS ON THE RIGHT FUEL TANK. THE LEFT FUEL TANK WAS NOT RUPTURED AND FULL OF FUEL.
Probable cause
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED (VSO) WHILE MANEUVERING DURING A FORCED LANDING. THIS RESULTED IN AN IN FLIGHT LOSS OF CONTROL (STALL) AND IN FLIGHT COLLISION WITH TERRAIN. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S INADEQUATE MANAGEMENT OF FUEL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA92LA078
- Event ID
- 20001211X14152
- Case number
- MIA92LA078
- 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: f3a3bec3c99757e1fe55fb6f358b3ad173e1789bb00951547b76e911577203ce; retrieved 2026-09-21T15:07:32.064Z.