ATL83LA143 · Beech C24R
Beech C24R · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL) to Bacon County Airport (AMG)
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL83LA143
- 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 C24R
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 24
- 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
- N6009A
- Operator
- Bob Mcconkey
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL), Fort Lauderdale, FLTo Bacon County Airport (AMG), Alma, GA
- 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 exhaustion
- 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 › Exhaustion
- Pilot in command › Fuel supply, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING FLT, THE PLT ENCOUNTERED STRONG HEADWINDS & DECIDED TO DIVERT TO WAYCROSS, GA. WHILE USING FUEL FROM THE RIGHT TANK, THE ENGINE QUIT DUE TO FUEL STARVATION. THE PLT STATED THAT THIS SURPRISED HIM SINCE THE RIGHT FUEL GAUGE NEEDLE WAS ONLY SLIGHTLY INSIDE THE RED ARC. HE SWITCHED TO THE LEFT TANK, RESTARTED THE ENGINE & CONTINUED TOWARD THE ARPT WHICH WAS IN SIGHT. WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH, THE ENGINE LOST POWER AGAIN WHEN THE LEFT TANK BECAME EMPTY. REPORTEDLY, THE LEFT FUEL GAUGE WAS ALSO ONLY SLIGHTLY IN THE RED ARC WHEN THE ENGINE QUIT. UNABLE TO GLIDE TO THE RWY, THE PLT TURNED TO LAND IN A FIELD. HE REPORTED THAT A HIGH SINK RATE DEVELOPED WHILE HE WAS CROSSING OVER TELEPHONE LINES IN A RIGHT BANK TO ALIGN WITH THE FIELD. REPORTEDLY, THE ACFT IMPACTED WHILE STILL IN A RIGHT BANK.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL83LA143
- Event ID
- 20001214X42348
- Case number
- ATL83LA143
- 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: f6a1443fe6a198df9a2c73c7d625e49734d3ac23565aefcd49c0e1a81b4ee860; retrieved 2026-09-22T02:45:07.920Z.