Aerovation Beech E-18S accident
Beech E-18S and De Mint, Thomas Beech C-45H · Accident: midair collision en route
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA88LA057
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Beech E-18S
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft E-18
- 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
- N24JE
- Operator
- Aerovation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY), New Orleans, LATo Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (LIT), Little Rock, AR
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Midair collision
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Aircraft 2 · Beech C-45H
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft C-45
- 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
- N492DM
- Operator
- De Mint, Thomas
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY), New Orleans, LATo LITL · Little Rock, AR
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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
- Midair collision
- 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 › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE TWO ACFT WERE REGISTERED TO THE SAME PERSON & THE PILOTS WERE FRIENDS OF EACH OTHER. THE ACFT DEPARTED FROM THE SAME AIRPORT AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME & WERE BOUND FOR THE SAME DESTINATION ON AN IFR FLT PLAN, N24JE AT 8000 FT, N492DM AT 4000 FT. LATER BOTH CANCELLED IFR & PROCEEDED VISUALLY. THE PLTS WERE IN TWO WAY RADIO CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER & AGREED TO EACH ADJUST THEIR ALT TO 6500 FT. THEY MAINTAINED VISUAL SEPARATION FROM EACH OTHER ABOUT 1 MI ABREAST. THEY STATED THAT THEY LOST VISUAL CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THE PLT OF N24JE STATED THAT HE NEXT SAW THE OTHER ACFT AHEAD & TO HIS RIGHT & HE BANKED HARD TO THE LEFT IN ORDER TO AVOID A COLLISION, BUT HE WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THE RIGHT LEADING EDGE OF THE WING OF N24JE STRUCK THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE LEFT WING OF N492DM. BOTH ACFT WERE ABLE TO LAND SAFELY & DENIED THEY WERE FLYING OR ATTEMPTING TO FLY FORMATION WITH EACH OTHER.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA88LA057
- Event ID
- 20001213X32738
- Case number
- MIA88LA057
- 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: 59199a6d33275f2c93f3fa71e52f96b6524392da1f5a2bef3aa6c81acee5f681; retrieved 2026-09-18T19:34:33.455Z.