CHI92DCG03 · Daniel M. Dent BD-5 B
Daniel M. Dent BD-5 B · Accident: total loss of engine power (mechanical failure) on approach
From Sherman Army Air Field (FLV) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI92DCG03
- 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
Daniel M. Dent BD-5 B
- Aircraft type
- Daniel M Dent BD-5
- 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
- N583BD
- Operator
- Daniel M. Dent · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Sherman Army Air Field (FLV)To 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 · VFR pattern final
- 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 (mechanical failure)
- 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
- Ignition system › Shorted
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACCIDENT AIRPLANE COLLIDED WITH TERRAIN AFTER LOSING ENGINE POWER DURING FINAL APPROACH TO THE LANDING RUNWAY. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE ENTERED THE TRAFFIC PATTERN, STARTED HIS LANDING DESCENT AND EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL. ABOUT 500 FEET AGL THE ENGINE TACHOMETER LOST ABOUT 200 RPM, THEN THE ENGINE QUIT. THE AIRPLANE STRUCK THE TOP OF A LEVY NEAR THE APPROACH END OF THE RUNWAY. DURING THE ON SCENE INVESTIGATION THE WIRING FROM THE IGNITION SOURCE TO THE IGNITION KILL SWITCH WAS CHECKED AND FOUND TO BE SHORTED TO THE DECK IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT, DEACTIVATING THE SINGLE IGNITION SYSTEM USED ON THIS AIRCRAFT.
Probable cause
A COMPLETE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOLLOWING AN ELECTRICAL SHORT TO GROUND IN THE AIRCRAFT'S 'IGNITION KILL' ELECTRIC CIRCUIT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI92DCG03
- Event ID
- 20001211X15090
- Case number
- CHI92DCG03
- 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 1992-07-08.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 1ad7697a6ac93232f2d99cb8656d53e1fa00fb32ac53dfc42d384624f4ac582c; retrieved 2026-09-21T23:12:54.190Z.