MIA84FA161 · Beech 35
Beech 35 · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From Orlando Apopka Airport (X04) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA84FA161
- 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 35
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 35
- 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
- N2830V
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Orlando Apopka Airport (X04), PLYMOUTH, FLTo 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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 starvation; Stall
- 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
- Fuel system, selector/valve › Incorrect
- Other maintenance personnel › Maintenance, installation, improper
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ENG LOST POWER WHEN THE ACFT WAS ON FINAL APCH TO LAND. THE PLT STATED THAT HE THEN SWITCHED FUEL TANKS, ACTIVATED THE ELECTRIC FUEL BOOST PUMP & WORKED THE RELATED WOBBLE PUMP AS FAST AS HE COULD, BUT WAS UNABLE TO RESTORE ENG POWER. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE ACFT CRASHED INTO A BUILDING AND CARTWHEELED INTO A PARKING LOT. AN EXAM OF THE WRECKAGE REVEALED THE LEFT FUEL TANK WAS EMPTY. ABOUT 10 GAL OF FUEL WAS REMAINING IN THE RIGHT TANK & AN UNDETERMINED AMOUNT OF FUEL WAS IN THE AUX TANK. THE WOBBLE PUMP/FUEL SELECTOR ASSEMBLY'S TANK SELECTOR VALVE, PN 35-924068, WAS MODIFIED, BUT WAS NOT INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MANUFACTURE'S SPECIFICATION. THE SELECTOR'S DETENT BALL, PN35-921166, WAS MISSING & THE ASSEMBLY'S SPRING WAS RIDING ON THE VALVE. ALSO, THE ASSEMBLY'S HOUSING, PN 35-921185, WAS DAMAGED. IN THIS CONDITION, THE PLT COULD NOT DETERMINE THE EXACT POSITION OF THE SELECTOR VALVE. AN EXAM OF THE ACFT REVEALED IT HAD CRASHED IN A STEEP NOSE DOWN, LEFT WING LOW ATTITUDE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA84FA161
- Event ID
- 20001214X39664
- Case number
- MIA84FA161
- 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: f74af1158e5507e41fe271469efcb82bb0901166f0682eb3682206824750d03e; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:37:32.482Z.