FTW82DA143 · Beech A60
Beech A60 · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From Addison Airport (ADS) to William P. Hobby Airport (HOU)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW82DA143
- 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 A60
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 60
- 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
- N7RA
- Operator
- Michael D. Taylor · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Addison Airport (ADS), Addison, TXTo William P. Hobby Airport (HOU), Houston, TX
- 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 · cruise
- 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)
- 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
- Company/operator management › Maintenance, service of aircraft/equipment, inadequate
- Fluid, oil › Contamination
- Pilot in command › Aircraft preflight, inadequate
- Propeller system/accessories, hydraulic pitch ctl › Blocked(partial)
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Garland, TX, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLANE HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN A BANKRUPCY SETTLEMENT AND HAD NOT BEEN FLOWN FOR ABOUT 3 1/2 MTHS. THE PILOT HAD BEEN SENT TO FERRY THE PLANE. DURING A RUN-UP BEFORE TAKEOFF, THE PROPELLERS MOVED TOWARD A FEATHER POSITION WITHOUT PILOT INPUT. THE PILOT HAD A MECHANIC SERVICE THE PROPS. A SUBSEQUENT RUN-UP WAS NORMAL, SO THE PILOT TOOK OFF. ABOUT TWO MINUTES AFTER LEVELING AT 1800 FT, THE LEFT PROP STARTED FEATHERING AGAIN WITHOUT PILOT INPUT AND THE LEFT ENGINE LOST POWER. A SHORT TIME LATER, THE RIGHT ENGINE BEGAN LOSING POWER. AN EMERGENCY LANDING WAS MADE ON A CLOSED AIRPORT; HOWEVER, THE GEAR STRUCK ROCKS AND DEBRIS THAT WERE NOT VISIBLE IN AN AREA OF GRASS. AN INVESTIGAITON REVEALED THE ENGINE OIL HAD NOT BEEN CHANGED SINCE 7/20/81. THE PROP GOVERNOR SCREENS WERE FOUND WITH ABOUT 70 TO 80% BLOCKAGE WITH A CARBON BUILD-UP. AN OIL ANALYSIS REVEALED A HIGH ALUMINUM CONTENT. THE LAB REPORT STATEDTHAT THIS MAY BE FROM BREAK-IN, RECENT MAINTENANCE, ABNORMAL WEAR, OR OVER EXTENDED OIL DRAIN. LAST ANNUAL DATED 4/2/81.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW82DA143
- Event ID
- 20020917X02083
- Case number
- FTW82DA143
- 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: 8151458c312a9b7be45068286ea18f0b97fe140b262cd817dc6170f84637639c; retrieved 2026-09-24T03:22:38.020Z.