MKC83LA118 · Gulfstream American AA1A
Gulfstream American AA1A · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From Johnson County Executive Airport (OJC) to Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC83LA118
- 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
Gulfstream American AA1A
- Aircraft type
- Gulfstream American AA1
- 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
- N9284L
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Johnson County Executive Airport (OJC), Olathe, KSTo Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT), Wichita, KS
- 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
- En route · descent
- 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
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Fluid, fuel › Starvation
- Pilot in command › Emergency procedure, not followed
- Pilot in command › Fuel supply, inattentive
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Wichita, KS, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
PRIOR TO THE FLT TO WICHITA, THE PLT RECEIVED A LOCAL NIGHT CHECKOUT WITH A CFI AT OLATHE. THE FLT THEN DEPARTED OLTHE A 2030. AS THE PLT BEGAN HIS DESCENT FOR A LANDING AT WITCHITA MID-CONTINENT ARPT THE ENG QUIT. HE WAS GIVEN A VECTOR TOCOL. JAMES JABARA ARPT. WHEN IT APPEARED HE WOULD NOT REACH RWY 2 THE PLT SELECTED A ROAD FOR THE FORCED LANDING. THE ACFT STALLED & LANDED HARD ON THE ROAD AS THE PLT ATTEMPTED TO LAND BETWEEN MOTOR VEHICLES. THE LEFT FUEL TANK WAS FOUNDEMPTY & DISPLAYED NO EVIDENCE OF LEAKAGE. THE RIGHT TANK WAS RUPTURED & LEAKING FUEL. THE LEFT FUEL TANK WAS SELECTED WHEN THE ENG WAS INITIALLY STARTED & USED CONTINUOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE FLTS. THE PLT STATED HE DID NOT ATTEMPT TO RESTARTTHE ENG AFTER IT QUIT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC83LA118
- Event ID
- 20001214X43107
- Case number
- MKC83LA118
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1983-05-30.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3ce164678ac6092ec3b5f0e9331165b21ddb4e9c56571adfc65ae70658a208a8; retrieved 2026-09-23T22:05:24.146Z.