FTW82AA391 · Beech 58P
Louisiana Dept. of Corrections Beech 58P · Accident: loss of engine power during initial climb
From Midland Airpark (MDD) to Baton Rouge, LA
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW82AA391
- 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
- 1 · 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 58P
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 58
- 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
- N2027C
- Operator
- Louisiana Dept. of Corrections
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Midland Airpark (MDD), Midland, TXTo Baton Rouge, LA
- 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
- Loss of engine power
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall/mush
- 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
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Emergency procedure, improper
- Pilot in command › Gear retraction, not performed
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Stall/mush, inadvertent
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
AN INTERSECTION TKOF WAS STARTED NR THE MIDDLE OF RWY 25 WITH 2096 FT REMAINING. THE PLT STATED THE TKOF WAS NORMAL UNTIL HE STARTED MAKING AN INITIAL PWR REDUCTION TO 34 INCHES AND 2400 RPM. AT THAT TIME, THE L ENG REPORTEDLY CONTINUEDTO LOSE PWR AND MANIFOLD PRESS. THE PLT ATMTD TO RESTORE PWR MOMENTARILY, THEN MOVED "ALL HANDLES" FWD & LWRD THE NOSE AS LONG AS HE COULD TO BLD UP SPEED. AS HE APCHD AN APARTMENT BLDG, HE PULLED UP BUT THE PLANE HIT THE ROOF, THEN IMPACTED IN A PARKING LOT & BURNED. THE PLT, PAX & A RESIDENT OF THE APARTMENT WERE BURNED. DRG THE INVESTIGATION, NO MECH DEFECTS WERE FND THAT WOULD CAUSE A LOSS OF PWR. THE 1419 CDT WX WAS (IN PART): TEMP 85 DEG, WND 070 DEG AT 8 KTS, ALTIMETER 30.07 THE ELEV WAS 2805 FT. THE DIST FROM THE INTERSECTION TO THE APARTMENT BLDG WAS 2477 FT. THE DIST TO CLR A 50 FT OBTCL WOULD HAVE BEEN 4000 FT AT THE MAX GROSS WT LIMIT. THE ESTIMATED GROSS WT WAS 195 LBS OVR THE 6100 LB LMT. THE MAX WT TO ACHIEVE SINGLE ENG RATE OF CLB AT LIFT OFF WOULD HAVE BEEN 5050 LBS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW82AA391
- Event ID
- 20020917X04584
- Case number
- FTW82AA391
- 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: 143d2002aa8ba58ff31d3225e6aadf02b763eac55f89c53456742f2a3d7514ce; retrieved 2026-09-21T07:45:37.454Z.