MIA99LA257 · Air Tractor AT-502B
Air Tractor AT-502B · Accident: loss of engine power while maneuvering
From Hollandale Municipal Airport (14M) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA99LA257
- 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
Air Tractor AT-502B
- Aircraft type
- Air Tractor AT-502
- 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
- N5092G
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Hollandale Municipal Airport (14M), Hollandale, MSTo 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 137: Agricultural
- 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
- Maneuvering
- 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
- Loss of engine power
- 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
- Fuel system, pc line › Not connected
- Other maintenance personnel › Maintenance, inspection, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
During an agricultural application flight, the pilot was making a swath run at 10 to 15 feet, when the turbine engine experienced a total loss of power. The pilot made a forced landing to a cotton field where the airplane nosed over. Examination revealed the P3 air line at the P3 filter housing was disconnected, and the 'B' nut was not safety wired. The engine maintenance manual stated, 'Make sure the P3 line to the filter and FCU is disconnected before performing a motoring compressor wash to avoid contamination...' The airframe and power plant mechanic who performed the last recorded 200 hour maintenance inspection stated he did not remove the P3 air line, and that the 'B' nut had slipped through without being safetied.
Probable cause
The P3 air line disconnected at the P3 air filter housing , and a 'B' nut not being safetied by maintenance personnel, which resulted in a total loss of engine power.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA99LA257
- Event ID
- 20001212X19833
- Case number
- MIA99LA257
- 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: 42657320e0a38b930f0a3ebaabc0c8c5c4a87fbd7c8150aaf4a3a17987f9beeb; retrieved 2026-09-21T10:49:58.643Z.