MKC88LA061 · Beech A36
Dga Beech A36 · Accident: partial loss of engine power (mechanical failure) during initial climb
From Cherokee County Regional Airport (CKP) to Bedford Municipal Airport (Y46)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC88LA061
- 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
Beech A36
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 36
- 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
- N8136R
- Operator
- Dga
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Cherokee County Regional Airport (CKP), Cherokee, IATo Bedford Municipal Airport (Y46), Bedford, IA
- 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 (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
- Electrical system, electric wiring › Burned
- Exhaust system › Failure, partial
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT STATED, THAT SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, THE ENGINE LOST SUBSTANTIAL PWR. AFTERWARDS THERE WAS SMOKE IN THE COCKPIT. THE PIC REVERSED HIS COURSE WITH THE INTENT TO LAND ON THE DEPARTURE ARPT. WHEN HE FELT HE HAD THE LDG FIELD MADE, HE ATTEMPTED TO LOWER THE LDG GEAR. THE RED GEAR UNSAFE LIGHT ILLUMINATED, SO HE ATTEMPTED TO LWR THE GEAR USING THE EMERGENCY CRANK DOWN PROCEDURES. HE FAILED TO GET FULL GEAR EXTENSION BEFORE STRIKING THE TERRAIN SHORT OF THE INTENDED LDG FIELD. POSTFLIGHT INSPECTION REVEALED A BROKEN EXHAUST PIPE FLANGE ON #5 CYLINDER, ALLOWING EXHAUST GAS TO MELT AN ALTERNATOR WIRE, AND REDUCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TURBOCHARGER ON THE MODIFIED ENGINE INSTALLATION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC88LA061
- Event ID
- 20001213X25318
- Case number
- MKC88LA061
- 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: 18ffb291ab5ac511103647810d1aaabe1ee193f8fe056fbff8b7630e6746730a; retrieved 2026-09-23T10:49:19.579Z.