DEN89LA051 · Beech B24R
Kansas College of Technology Beech B24R · Accident: partial loss of engine power (non-mechanical) during initial climb
From Ogden Hinckley Airport (OGD) to Cheyenne Regional Jerry Olson Field (CYS)
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN89LA051
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Beech B24R
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 24
- 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
- N65PW
- Operator
- Kansas College of Technology
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Ogden Hinckley Airport (OGD)To Cheyenne Regional Jerry Olson Field (CYS), Cheyenne, WY
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Flight into known adverse weather, initiated
- Pilot in command › Powerplant controls, improper use of
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE NON-INSTRUMENT RATED PLT RCVD A WX BRIEFING & FILED AN IFR FLT PLN. HE TKOF ON RWY 34 AT 1517 MST WITH LOW CEILING &RESTRICTED VIS DUE TO FOG & LGT SNOW. THE TWR CTLR SAW THE ACFT LIFT-OFF AT THE RWY'S END, THEN LOST SIGHT OF IT. SOON THEREAFTER, THE PLT SAID HE WAS UNABLE TO GAIN ALT & WAS RTRNG TO THE ARPT. HE WAS CLRD TO LND ON ANY RWY. DUE TO WX, TWR PSNL DIDN'T SEE THE ACFT UNTIL IT WAS ESE OF THE ARPT IN A RGT PATTERN, IT THEN DISAPPEARED FM THEIR VIEW AGAIN (IN WX) BFR CRASHING. THE PLT STATED THAT DRG TKOF, THE ENG BGN RUNNING ROUGH AT ABT 200' AGL & LOST PARTIAL PWR. HE SAID HECIRCLED BACK TO THE ARPT AT MIN SPEED, LOSING ABT 50' PER MIN, DODGING BLDGS & TREES. HE ATMTD TO LND ON RWY 34, BUT THEACFT NRLY STALLED. HE THEN ATMTD TO LND ON RWY 3, BUT THE ACFT HIT THE PERIMETER FENCE & SLID TO A STOP. NO PREIMPACT MECH PRBLM WAS FND. THE 1525 MST WX AT OGDEN WAS, IN PART: 700' OBSCURED, VIS 3/4 MI WITH FOG & LIGHT SNOW, TEMP 30, DEWPOINT 27. ACCORDING TO ICING PROBABILITY CHARTS, CARB ICING CONDS PREVAILED. ARPT ELEV WAS 4470'
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN89LA051
- Event ID
- 20001213X27417
- Case number
- DEN89LA051
- 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: 8303dcd4d12c4a57ef6aa3aadf6bb7ce625b4c3fec8f2de97e67519661f836cc; retrieved 2026-09-23T08:05:09.399Z.