ATL82DA223 · Aero Commander 680FL
Aero Commander 680FL · Accident: fire en route
From 21A · Alabaster, AL to 21A · Alabaster, AL
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL82DA223
- 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
Aero Commander 680FL
- Aircraft type
- Aero Commander 680
- 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
- N11GT
- Operator
- Mclaughlin
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 21A · Alabaster, ALTo 21A · Alabaster, AL
- 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
- Fire
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Fuel system, line fitting › Improper
- Fuel system, line fitting › Leak
- Pilot in command › Maintenance, installation, improper
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Alabaster, AL, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
PRIOR TO THE POST-MAINTENANCE INSPECTION FLIGHT THE PILOT/OWNER, WHO IS A CERTIFICATED A&P MECHANCIC, HAD BEEN CALIBRATING THE FUEL FLOW ON THE RIGHT ENG FUEL INJECTOR PUMP. AN EXTERNAL LINE HAD BEEN CONNECTED TO THE FUEL FLOW TRANSMITTER FITTING OF THE FUEL INJECTOR. PRIOR TO THE TEST FLIGHT THE EXTERNAL LINE WAS REMOVED & THE FUEL FLOW REPLACED. ABOUT 10 MIN AFTER TAKEOFF THE PLT OBSERVED FLAMES FROM 25 TO 15 PSI. THE RIGHT ENG WAS SHUT DOWN & THE PROP FEATHERED. AFTER LANDING THE PLT WAS UNABLE TO TAXI THE ACFT & THE ACFT WAS ABANDONED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL82DA223
- Event ID
- 20020917X02799
- Case number
- ATL82DA223
- 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 1982-08-02.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 01dc5fc00e4bf7008215d8e12a46a2b797248929489c328681124392072ef48a; retrieved 2026-09-24T01:52:31.877Z.