MIA87FA091 · Beech A36TC
Beech A36TC · Accident: loss of engine power during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Melbourne Orlando International Airport (MLB)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA87FA091
- 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 A36TC
- 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
- N47EE
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Melbourne Orlando International Airport (MLB), Melbourne, 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
- Takeoff
- 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
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall
- 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
- Other crewmember › Airspeed, not maintained
- Other crewmember › Stall, inadvertent
- Pilot in command › Emergency procedure, improper
- Pilot in command › Fuel boost pump selector position, improper
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DRG THE TAKEOFF ROLL, LGT COLORED SMOKE WAS SEEN TRAILING THE THE ACFT. THE PLT RPRTD THAT AT 100 TO 200 FT AGL, THE ENGLOST PARTIAL PWR. HE SAID HE CHECKED ALL CTLS & RAISED THE LNDG GEAR. WITNESSES RPRTD THAT AT ABOUT THAT TIME, HEAVY SMOKE BGN TRAILING THE ACFT & THE ENG BACKFIRED & QUIT. THE PLT SAID THE SAFETY PLT THEN TOOK CTL & ATMTD TO RETURN TO THE ARPT. AT ABOUT THAT TIME, THE ACFT STALLED, DSCNDD OUT OF CTL & CRASHED AT THE EDGE OF A LAKE. RSN FOR THE INITIAL PWR LOSS WAS NOT DETERMINED. THE ELEC BOOST PUMP WAS FND IN THE HI PSN AFTER THE ACDNT. THE FLT MANUAL WARNED THAT THE HI BOOST PUMP MUST NOT BE USED UNLESS THE ENG DRIVEN FUEL PUMP HAD FAILED; OTHERWISE, INCREASED PRESSURE FM THE HI BOOSTPUMP WOULD RESULT IN ENG ROUGHNESS; IN SOME CASES, ENG COMBUSTION MAY CEASE. THE ENG OPERATED NORMALLY IN A TEST CELL AFTER THE ACDNT. WHEN ANOTHER ENG WAS TESTED, LOSS OF PWR OCCURRED 3 TO 5 SEC AFTER THE HI BOOST PUMP WAS ACTIVATED. ALSO, A CRACK WAS FND IN THE TURBOCHARGER INLET PIPE, BUT DUPLICATION OF THIS RESULTED IN ONLY A MINOR PWR LOSS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA87FA091
- Event ID
- 20001213X30283
- Case number
- MIA87FA091
- 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: 66ac5fa65558552651c0bd652f34372b60d2e4b15d526b34e8c4604ee2274713; retrieved 2026-09-21T16:40:43.159Z.