LAX87LA195 · Cessna 402A
Inter Island Air Cessna 402A · Accident: partial loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From Kahului International Airport (OGG) to Lanai Airport (LNY)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX87LA195
- 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
Cessna 402A
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 402
- 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
- N4588Q
- Operator
- Inter-Island Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kahului International Airport (OGG)To Lanai Airport (LNY), LANAI, HI
- 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
- Approach
- 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)
- 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
- Fuel starvation
- 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
- Fluid, fuel › Starvation
- Pilot in command › Fuel supply, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Planning/decision, improper
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, THE PLT REQD AN 'IMMEDIATE DOWNWIND' TO RTRN TO THE ARPT & WAS CLRD TO LAND. WHEN ASKED IF EQUIP-MENT WAS NEEDED, HE REPLIED, 'NEGATIVE, SIR, A LITTLE MATTER OF FUEL.' A WITNESS SAID THE ACFT APPEARED VERY LOW ON FINAL APCH WITH BOTH PROPS TURNING. THE ACFT CRASH LNDD SHORT OF THE RWY, WENT THRU A PERIMETER FENCE & CAME TO REST ON AN INCLINE ABT 10' SHORT OF THE RWY. THE PLT RCVD A HEAD INJURY & COULDN'T REMEMBER MANY DETAILS OF THE OCCURRENCE. IN AN EARLY INTERVIEW, HE INDCD THERE WAS A PARTIAL PWR LOSS & THE ACFT YAWED, BUT HE COULDN'T REMEMBER WHICH ENG 'CUT OUT FIRST.' LATER, HE WAS UNABLE TO RECALL LOSING PWR. SIX GAL OF FUEL WAS FND IN THE L MAIN TANK, ABT 1.5 GAL WAS IN THE R MAIN TANK. THE LEFT FUEL SLCTR WAS FND IN THE 'MAIN' PSN, BUT DUE TO DMG & RESCUE ACTIVITIES, THE PSN OF THE R FUEL SLCTR WAS NOT DETERMINED. BOTH AUX PUMP SWS WERE IN THE 'OFF' PSN. THE L PROP CTL WAS IN THE FEATHER PSN, BUT NEITHER PROP HAD FEATHERED. EACH MAIN TANK HELD 1 GAL OF UNUSABLE FUEL. A TEST OF THE PLT'S BLOOD SHOWED 0.045% ALCOHOL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX87LA195
- Event ID
- 20001213X30732
- Case number
- LAX87LA195
- 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: f89b456299da9f4d25be77c3ccabd0c5ea5e25e1f48e9d4f98ef08baeb81ef39; retrieved 2026-09-21T16:33:43.892Z.