LAX83FVM04 · Swearingen SA226-T
United Faith Foundation Swearingen SA226-T · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT) to Birmingham, AL
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX83FVM04
- 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
Swearingen SA226-T
- Aircraft type
- Swearingen SA226
- 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
- N4273X
- Operator
- United Faith Foundation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT), Fresno, CATo Birmingham, 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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 control on ground/water
- 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
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING ARRIVAL, THE WINDS WERE REPORTED FROM 350 TO 360 DEG AT 20 GUSTING 25 KTS, AND WHILE LANDING, THEY WERE FROM 360 DEG AT 21 KTS. THE ACFT'S MAX DEMO X-WIND CAPABILITY WAS 22 KTS. THE PLT REPORTED THAT DURING THE LANDING, THE POWER LEVERS WERE RETARDED TO IDLE, THEN TO REVERSE. WHILE ENTERING REVERSE, THE ACFT SWERVED TO THE LEFT, AWAY FROM THE X-WIND. THE PLT THEN ADVANCED THE THROTTLES OUT OF REVERSE TO LESS THAN FLT IDLE. AT THAT TIME, THE ACFT SWERVED TO THE RIGHT. THE POWER LEVERS WERE AGAIN REVERSED & BRAKES WERE APPLIED. HOWEVER, THE ACFT VEERED OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE RWY. IT CONTINUED INTO MUD, THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED & BOTH PROPS WERE DAMAGED. THE PLT DID NOT FEATHER THE ENGS UNTIL AFTER BOTH PROPS HAD STOPPED TURNING. THE RIGHT PROP WAS FOUND IN THE FULL FEATHERED POSITION, THE LEFT PROP HAD NOT FEATHERED. REMOVAL OF THE RIGHT PROP DOME REVEALED NO APPARENT ABNORMALITIES OR INTERNAL DAMAGE. THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT THE LEFT PROP HAD GONE BEYOND FULL REVERSE ON IMPACT. NO PREIMPACT FAILURE WAS FOUND.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX83FVM04
- Event ID
- 20020917X04832
- Case number
- LAX83FVM04
- 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: ade8417d004c0320fc2cf394803323200efbde0e54e787ed57fa00403a0c44ad; retrieved 2026-09-23T23:50:59.436Z.