MIA84FA165 · Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4
Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4 · Accident: partial loss of engine power (mechanical failure) during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Jacksonville International Airport (JAX)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA84FA165
- 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
- 1 · 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
Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4
- Aircraft type
- Consolidated Aeronautics LAKE LA-4
- 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
- N1119L
- Operator
- Franklin L. Chase · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Jacksonville International Airport (JAX), Jacksonville, FL
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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 (mechanical failure)
- 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
- Stall/spin
- 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
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Lack of recent total experience
- Pilot in command › Lack of total experience in type of aircraft
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ENG WAS HEARD 'POPPING' & MISFIRING DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL. ABOUT 1 MIN LATER WHILE CLIMBING THRU 400-500 FT, THE PLT REPORTED AN ENG FAILURE & WAS CLEARED TO LAND ON ANY RWY. THE ACFT ENTERED A LEFT TURN, STALLED & SPUN INTO A PARKING LOT. AN EXAM OF THE ENG REVEALED THAT THE ENG FUEL SYSTEM (INLINE FUEL FILTER SERVO CONTROL & FUEL FLOW DIVIDER)CONTAINED DIRT & CORROSION CONTAMINATION. THE ACFT HAD RECEIVED AN ANNUAL INSPECTION ON 11/17/83. THE ENG FUEL SYSTEM WAS NOT INSPECTED. THE ACFT HAD FLOWN 3 HRS SINCE THE INSPECTION. THE PLT HAD JUST PURCHASED THE ACFT & HAD FLOWN1 HR IN THE ACFT THE DAY BEFORE WHICH ENDED WITH A GEAR-UP LANDING. THE LAST ENTRY IN THE PLT'S LOGBOOK WAS A BIENNIAL FLT REVIEW ON 9/17/81. THE PREVIOUS ENTRY INDICATED HE HAD 1300 TOTAL HRS. ON THE DATE OF THE PLT'S LAST MEDICAL EXAM, 4/10/84, THE PLT INDICATED HE HAD 1400 TOTAL HRS WITH NO FLT TIME IN THE PREVIOUS 6 MOS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA84FA165
- Event ID
- 20001214X39668
- Case number
- MIA84FA165
- 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: 0130a6f53f7f2be82c715deb2678305941476dc6229bb396b9e39bed74ea8fd4; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:32:28.745Z.