MIA83FA207 · Beech A100
Beech A100 · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water during initial climb
From Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX) to Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA83FA207
- 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 A100
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 100
- 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
- N129D
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX), ST. CROIXTo Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU), San Juan, PR
- 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
- In flight collision with terrain/water
- 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
- Pilot in command › Airspeed(vlof), below
- Pilot in command › Distance, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Judgment, poor
- Pilot in command › Lift-off, premature
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Vieques, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT CRASH LANDED DURING A TOUCH AND GO LANDING. THE PLT SAID THAT THE ACFT WAS CAUGHT IN A WINDSHEAR OR VIOLENT DOWNDRAFT AND WOULD NOT CLIMB. HE DID NOT SAY WHY HE WAS DOING A TOUCH AND GO LANDING WITH 9 PASSENGERS ON BOARD. THE PLTS ACCOUNT OF THE ACCIDENT WAS: AFTER TOUCHDOWN I RAISED THE FLAPS AND SET TAKEOFF POWER. AT 103 KTS AND WITH 500 FT OF RWY REMAINING THE ACFT WAS LIFTED OFF. AT ABOUT 150 FT AGL AND CLIMBING I STARTED TO RAISE LANDING GEAR BUT THE ACFT STARTED TO SINK SO I LEFT GEAR DOWN. THE TREES WERE MOVING VIOLENTLY. I FELT I WAS CAUGHT IN A WINDSHEAR BECAUSE OF A SHARP DROP IN AIRSPEED AND THE ACFT QUIT PERFORMING. THE ACFT CONTINUED SINKING AND I DECIDED ON A CONTROLLED CRASH TO SAVE THE PASSENGERS. A WITNESS STATED HE (THE PLT) TOOK OFF WITHOUT ENOUGH POWER. I SAW THE PLANE WITH ITS NOSE HIGH ANDTAIL LOW AND I LOST THE PLANE WHEN IT WENT INTO THE TREES. THE ACFT HIT SEVERAL CITRUS TREES AT A SHALLOW ANGLE OF DESCENT 1200 FT FROM THE END OF THE RWY. THE ACFT WENT 150 FT THROUGH THE TREES AND 350 FT ON THE GROUND BEFORE STOPPING
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA83FA207
- Event ID
- 20001214X44244
- Case number
- MIA83FA207
- 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: b2c98ca7627342e62855a3f9cbd5539c7fcd5fee8811cd201f2016cac198b8c9; retrieved 2026-09-23T21:32:19.133Z.