LAX02LA033 · Beech B95
Sheble Aviation Beech B95 · Accident: loss of engine power on approach
From Henderson Executive Airport (HND) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX02LA033
- 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
- Unknown
- 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 B95
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 95
- 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
- N2012C
- Operator
- Sheble Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Henderson Executive Airport (HND), Henderson, NVTo 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 go-around
- 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
- Loss of engine power
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The airplane impacted terrain following a loss of engine power during a go-around on final approach. The check airman, who was giving a multiengine check ride to a private pilot, asked the pilot to conduct a short field landing. The check airman believed that they were too low while on final approach, with the landing gear and flaps extended. He asked the pilot if he thought everything was O.K. The pilot did not respond, so the check airman initiated a go-around by applying full power and retracting the landing gear. During the application of power for the go-around, the left engine failed to produce full power. The airplane veered to the left and its left wing impacted the ground. Pertinent sections of the pilot's operating handbook for the Beech B95 were reviewed. The recommended approach speed for a short field landing is 82 mph indicated airspeed, while best single engine rate of climb airspeed (Vyse) is 100 mph indicated. The procedure specified for a single engine go-around is as follows: 1) Apply full power to operating engine; 2) retract landing gear and close cowl flaps on dead engine; 3) retract flaps to half extension initially, then fully retract the flaps as soon as practical thereafter. The single engine rate of climb chart predicts a 160-foot-per-minute positive climb at the pressure altitude and temperature existing at the accident site; however, this performance is predicated on the airplane being in the following configuration: 1) at Vyse; 2) gear and flaps retracted; 3) inoperative engine's propeller feathered; 4) 5-degree bank into the operating engine. Any deviation from the listed single engine climb configuration would result in a degradation of the climb performance. Given that the airplane was likely in an energy deficient state some 15 to 18 mph below best single engine climb airspeed and not in the proper configuration for a single engine go-around when the loss of power in the left engine became apparent, a successful outcome for the maneuver was in doubt. The aircraft and left engine were examined by FAA inspectors with assistance by certificated mechanics; however, the reason for the left engine's failure to respond could not be determined.
Probable cause
the loss of engine power in the left engine for undetermined reasons. A contributing factor was the check pilot's failure to completely configure the airplane for a single engine go-around in a timely way.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX02LA033
- Event ID
- 20011207X02360
- Case number
- LAX02LA033
- 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, coordinates. 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: fd1cfe31b5e9b1d8b04c0e65bc0bc1be9e7f8f8b6afd7000012a649e6058d960; retrieved 2026-09-22T11:18:54.564Z.