Newair Flight de Havilland DHC-6-100 incident
de Havilland DHC-6-100 · Incident: total loss of engine power (mechanical failure) en route
From Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC82IA036
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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
de Havilland DHC-6-100
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-6
- 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
- N80701
- Operator
- Newair Flight
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), PHILADEPHIA, PATo John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), NEW YORK, NY
- 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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 (mechanical failure)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
- Compressor assembly, blade › Fatigue
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING CRUISE FLIGHT, THE AIRCRAFT EXPERIENCED A POWER FAILURE AND FIRE IN THE LEFT ENGINE. THE CREW SECURED THE ENGINE AND DISCHARGED THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER WITHOUT EFFECT ON THE FIRE. DURING DESCENT TO JFK INTERNATIONAL THE FIRE EXTINGUISHED ITSELF. A NORMAL SINGLE ENGINE LANDING WAS MADE AND THE PASSENGERS DEPLANED WITHOUT INJURY. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT A COMPRESSOR TURBINE BLADE HAD FAILED IN FATIGUE DAMAGING POWER TURBINE BLADES, THE POWER TURBINE VANE RING AND THE COMPRESSOR TURBINE VANE RING. IN ADDITION THE PROPELLER REDUCTION GEARBOX WAS DAMAGED. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE FATIGUE IN THE TURBINE BLADE WAS NOT DETERMINED. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE FAILED BLADE WAS INSTALLED AT OVERHAUL, ABOUT 843 HOURS BEFORE THE INCIDENT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC82IA036
- Event ID
- 20020917X02571
- Case number
- NYC82IA036
- 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, damage. 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: f378b86449c8713fa158bcf298b1c319041ad63ad61cbd94c022129e7285ab4b; retrieved 2026-09-18T21:12:28.630Z.