Prinair CASA 212 incident
CASA 212 · Incident: fire/explosion en route
From Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU) to Cibao International Airport (MDST)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA85IA086
- 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
- Incident
- 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
CASA 212
- Aircraft type
- Casa 212
- 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
- N436CA
- Operator
- Prinair
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU), San Juan, PRTo Cibao International Airport (MDST), Santiago
- 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 · climb to 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
- Fire/explosion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Manufacturer › Maintenance, alignment, improper
- Turbine assembly, shaft bearing › Failure, total
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Arecibo, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
WHILE ON A SCHEDULED INTERNATIONAL COMMUTER FLIGHT DURING CLIMB THE CREW NOTED A FIRE IN THE NUMBER ONE ENGINE. THE EXECUTED THE EMERGENCY CHECKLIST AND DISCHARGED TWO FIREBOTTLES. THE FLAMES CONTINUED TO EXIT THE TAILPIPE. THE CREW EXECUTED A FORCED LANDING TO AN INTERMIDIATE FIELD AND SHUT THE AIRCRAFT DOWN, AT WHICH TIME THE FIRE STOPPED. EXAMINATION OF THE ENGINE REVEALED THAT THE AFT TURBINE BEARING WAS FAILED AND EXHIBITED EVIDENCE OF BEING BEARING WAS FAILED AND EXHIBITED EVIDENCE OF BEING MIS-ALIGNED AT INSTALLATION. ALSO NOTED WAS THE FACT THAT THE BEARING RETAINER EXIBITED NO EVIDENCE OF BEING NITRIDED AS REQUIRED WHICH ACCELERATED THE FAILURE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA85IA086
- Event ID
- 20001214X35571
- Case number
- MIA85IA086
- 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: 5d7124f007507f952ad85a1ee2a639ba1b4af0f2cfe9363348a136674e8f34da; retrieved 2026-09-18T20:31:50.876Z.