FTW92FA025 · Beech B19
Beech B19 and Convair 600 · Accident: midair collision en route
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW92FA025
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Beech B19
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 19
- 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
- N9343S
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (FTW), FT WORTH, TXTo Addison Airport (ADS), Dallas, TX
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Midair collision
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Aircraft 2 · Convair 600
- Aircraft type
- Convair 600
- 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
- N94258
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From AWF · Fort Worth, TXTo 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 base
- 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
- Midair collision
- 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 › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
CONVAIR 600, N94258, WAS ON A FLT WITH A COML PLT IN THE L SEAT & A CFI IN THE RGT SEAT. THEY ENTERED VFR TFC FOR ILS APCHS TO RWY 34. THE COML PLT WAS USING A HOOD; THE CFI WAS PROVIDING SIMULATED ATC VCTRS FOR AN APCH. A DEVELOPMENTAL CTLR (D/C) WAS CTLG TFC AT THE FTW ALLIANCE ARPT UNDER SUPVN OF AN INSTRUCTOR. D/C ADZD THE PLTS TO MAINT VFR & THAT SEPN SVCS WOULD NOT BE PROVIDED. AS THE CONVAIR WAS IN A CLOSED/RGT PATTERN, THE PLT OF BEECH B19, N9343S, CTCD THE TWR FOR APPROVAL TO TRANSIT THE AREA FM SE TO NE. THE B19 PLT WAS CLRD THRU THE AREA AT OR BLO 2400' MSL. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE 2 ACFT CONVERGED & COLLIDED AT AN ALT OF ABT 2000' MSL. IMPACT OCCURRED AS THE B19 WAS ON A HDG OF 060 DEG & THE CONVAIR WAS IN A RGT TURN TO INTERCEPT THE ILS FINAL APCH COURSE. THE B19 PLT SAW THE CONVAIR JUST BFR IMPACT & TRIED TO AVOID A COLLISION; THE CONVAIR PLTS DID NOT SEE THE B19. AFTER IMPACT, THE CONVAIR WAS LNDD WITH A DMGD HRZNTL STBLZR. THE B19 PLT WAS FORCED TO LNDG ON ROUGH TRRN. THE ATC CTLRS HAD NOT NOTIFIED EITHER CREW OF THE OTR ACFT'S PSN.
Probable cause
INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT BY THE PILOTS-IN-COMMAND OF BOTH AIRCRAFT, WHICH RESULTED IN THEIR FAILURE TO SEE-AND-AVOID THE OTHER AIRCRAFT. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: FAILURE OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL CONTROLLER OR THE SUPERVISOR TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE CONTROL TOWER SERVICE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW92FA025
- Event ID
- 20001212X18446
- Case number
- FTW92FA025
- 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: 8c3dea6d7355ea92130f76bea83cfe5925869ae01d2ea615cfa74c1f16e4f949; retrieved 2026-09-23T03:31:56.755Z.