Bar Harbor Beech C-99 incident
Beech C-99 and Cessna 172P · Incident: near collision between aircraft on approach
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA88IA099
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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 C-99
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft C-99
- 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
- N232BH
- Operator
- Bar Harbor
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From THL · Tallahassee, FLTo Orlando International Airport (MCO), Orlando, FL
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- Near collision between aircraft
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Aircraft 2 · Cessna 172P
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 172
- 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
- N54119
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Orlando International Airport (MCO)To TI · Titusville, FL
- 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
- Near collision between aircraft
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
- Atc personnel(lcl/gnd/clnc) › Control tower service, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Control tower service, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Visual separation › Not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DRG A VISUAL APCH TO ORLANDO INTL ARPT, BAR HARBOR FLT 3949 (BEECH C-99, N232BH) CONTACTED THE TOWER (LOCAL CONTROLLER) AT 1817:07 & RPRTD 5 MI NORTH OF THE VOR FOR LANDING. THE VOR WAS LOCATED 5.8 MI NORTH OF THE RWY. ABOUT 20 SEC LATER, THE LOCAL CONTROLLER (LC) CLRD FLT 3949 TO LAND ON RWY 18L. AT 1818:15, A CESSNA 172 PLT (N54119) CONTACTED THE TOWER & RPRTD ' . . . READY, FULL LENGTH, RIGHT SIDE.' TRAFFIC WAS MODERATE TO HEAVY, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY, N54119 WAS CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF ON RWY 18R & TO TURN LEFT TO 090 DEG AFTER TAKEOFF. AS N54119 WAS DEPARTING ON RWY 18R, FLT 3949 WAS LANDING LONG ON RWY 18L. SOON AFTER LIFT-OFF, N54119 BEGAN A LEFT TURN & CROSSED OVER RWY 18L IN THE VICINITY WHERE FLT 3949 WAS LANDING. THIS RESULTED IN A NEAR COLLISION. THE CAPT OF FLT 3949 ESTIMATED THE CESSNA CROSSED ABOUT 150 TO 200 FT IN FRONT & SLIGHTLY ABOVE HIS FLT PATH. THE LC SAID THAT DRG THE OCCURRENCE, SHE SAW N54119 LIFT-OFF, THEN SHE DIVERTED HER ATTENTION TO ANOTHER ACFT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA88IA099
- Event ID
- 20001213X25112
- Case number
- MIA88IA099
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- 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, damage. 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: 5bf4799c5529b87618b6ce618828434bc15e144c7c45b1571cf42258346973d5; retrieved 2026-09-18T19:27:56.465Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: operator. The NTSB narrative names the operator: "DRG A VISUAL APCH TO ORLANDO INTL ARPT, BAR HARBOR FLT 3949 (BEECH C-99, N232BH) CONTACTED THE TOWER"