NYC00FA094 · Beech A23
Beech A23 · Accident: partial loss of engine power (non-mechanical) during initial climb
From Akure Airport (AKR) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC00FA094
- 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 A23
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 23
- 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
- N1410L
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Akure Airport (AKR)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
- 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
- Partial loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- 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
- Pilot in command › Operation with known deficiencies in equipment, attempted
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The day before the accident, Saturday, the pilot was observed by airport personnel to takeoff in the accident airplane, return to his parking space, and then takeoff off again. The pilot repeated this action several times. Also, the pilot called the airframe and powerplant mechanic who performed the airplane's last annual inspection and said 'the airplane wasn't developing power.' The mechanic then told the pilot to 'leave it on the ground,' and he would look at the airplane on Monday. Witnesses who observed the airplane depart on Sunday, stated that the engine noise was constant; however, it 'just didn't seem like it was at full RPM.' The airplane 'barely cleared' the airport perimeter fence located off the departed end of the 6,337 foot long runway. The airplane made a series of descending left turns, and impacted two homes about 1/2 mile from the runway. With the exception of an 8-foot section of the empennage and the outboard half of the left wing, the airplane was consumed by a post crash fire. The engine also sustained substantial fire damage. The fuel injector and electric fuel pump were consumed in the fire. Examination of the airplane and disassembly of the engine, did not reveal evidence of any catastrophic failures. The pilot had flown the airplane about 90 hours in the year prior to the accident.
Probable cause
The pilot's improper decision to operate the airplane with known deficiencies. A factor in this accident was the inability of the engine to attain full power for undetermined reasons.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC00FA094
- Event ID
- 20001212X20711
- Case number
- NYC00FA094
- 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: 4e8db1f98d20ad07298e4d7152f8d6bf51a8f482f485ed7db44f8bea97b23b4b; retrieved 2026-09-20T21:24:06.210Z.