ATL85LA201 · Beech 76
Pro Aero Beech 76 · Accident: partial loss of engine power (non-mechanical) during initial climb
From an unrecorded airport to Fairmont Municipal Airport Frankman Field (4G7)
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL85LA201
- 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 76
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 76
- 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
- N6002P
- Operator
- Pro Aero
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Fairmont Municipal Airport Frankman Field (4G7), Fairmont, WV
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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)
- 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
- Dual student › Aircraft handling, not maintained
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Judgment, poor
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Miscellaneous, intentional
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Supervision, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Morgantown, WV, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE CFI & DUAL STUDENT WERE ON A FLT TO FAIRMONT, WV SO THE STUDENT COULD RECEIVE A MULTI-ENG FLT EXAM. THE STUDENT STATED THAT SHORTLY AFTER LIFT-OFF FROM RWY 18, THE CFI CLOSED THE MIXTURE CONTROL ON THE RIGHT ENG 'TO SIMULATE AN ENGINE FAILURE.' THE ACFT BEGAN TO YAW TO THE RIGHT & THE STUDENT APPLIED LEFT RUDDER & AILERON TO CORRECT THE YAW. ACCORDING TO THE CFI, THE STUDENT THEN REVERSED THE INPUTS MOMENTARILY & THE ACFT ROLLED TO THE RIGHT. THE CFI THEN DECREASED THE PITCH ATTITUDE OF THE ACFT & LEVELED THE WINGS. HOWEVER, THE ACFT IMPACTED THE GROUND APRX 200 FT WEST OF RWY 18 & WAS DESTROYED BY POST IMPACT FIRE. THE STUDENT STATED THAT THE ACFT HAD REACHED AN ALT OF ABOUT 100 TO 150 FT AGL WHEN THE 'SIMULATED ENGINE FAILURE' WAS INITIATED. HE FURTHER STATED THAT IT WAS A COMMON PRACTICE FOR THE CFI TO SIMULATE AN ENG FAILURE BY CLOSING THE MIXTURE CONTROL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL85LA201
- Event ID
- 20001214X36676
- Case number
- ATL85LA201
- 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: 673566aed9fc9fb63c763b4315733bffdb93218b6ded60d4c1127a64062e181f; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:14:40.937Z.