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MIA87LA262 · Boeing E75

29 Sept 1987 · Ocala, FL, United States

Boeing E75 · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) while maneuvering

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Event

NTSB case
MIA87LA262
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

Boeing E75

Aircraft type
Boeing E75
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
N5190N
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From not recordedTo not recorded
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
Maneuvering
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
Total 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 exhaustion; Tree(s)
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

  • Fluid, fuel › Exhaustion
  • Pilot in command › Fuel supply, inadequate
  • Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate

Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Ocala, FL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.

NTSB narrative

THE PLT STATED THAT THE ENG LOST POWER & HE WAS AT LOW ALT LOOKING FOR AN EMERG LDG FIELD WHEN THE WING HIT A TREE. THE PAX STATED THEY WERE DOING AEROBATICS AT LOW ALT & THE ENG QUIT. SHE STATED THAT SHE WAS NOT WEARING THE REQUIRED PARACHUTE & HAD ASKED THE PLT TO STOP DOING THE AEROBATICS. FAA PERSONNEL LATER TEST RAN THE ENG & IT PERFORMED NORMALLY. NO EVIDENCE OF ANY FUEL WAS FOUND IN THE ACFT & NO FUEL SPILL WAS EVIDENT IN THE CRASH SITE AREA.

Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record MIA87LA262
Event ID
20001213X32156
Case number
MIA87LA262
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: ee31e72dc8d302d0213c88b77b17319b5c25070e51c5d1ccceb8915db767ba3b; retrieved 2026-09-22T00:43:21.874Z.