DFW05FA192 · Aero Commander 112
Aero Commander 112 · Accident: in flight collision with object during initial climb
From Kimble County Airport (JCT) to Neosho Hugh Robinson Airport (EOS)
Event
- NTSB case
- DFW05FA192
- 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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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 112
- Aircraft type
- Aero Commander 112
- 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
- N1029J
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kimble County Airport (JCT), Junction, TXTo Neosho Hugh Robinson Airport (EOS), Neosho, MO
- 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
- In flight collision with object
- 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 › Proper climb rate, not attained
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The 7,000-hour airline transport pilot, filed an IFR flight plan for a personal cross-country flight. An A&P mechanic at the airport, heard the airplane engine start and while the airplane was taxiing, he heard the pilot do a "rolling mag check" and then depart to the north. Several witnesses on a road just north of the airport, saw the airplane low and then impact a tree near a ridgeline. Photographs of the airplane, taken by one of the witnesses prior to the airplane's impact with the trees, revealed that the airplane's flaps were extended. An on-site examination of the airplane wreckage, found the flap jack-screw extended approximately 4 7/8 inches, corresponding to a flap setting of 35 degrees. Control continuity was established for all flight controls to the cockpit, except for the right wing aileron due to fire damage. Ground propeller scars were noted approximately 23 feet from the final resting area; several pieces of angular cut tree branches were along the wreckage path, prior to the ground scars. The Medical Examiner’s report lists the pilots manner of death as natural. Additionally, the report states that the pilot died as a result of cardiac arrhythmia due to a dilated cardiomyopathy; however, the timing of the cardiac event could not be conclusively determined. The density altitude was calculated to be 3,646 feet.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain the proper climb rate resulting in the airplane's wing colliding with a tree and subsequent impact with the ground. Contributing factors were the pilot's improper use of the airplane's flaps, and the rising terrain.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW05FA192
- Event ID
- 20050801X01124
- Case number
- DFW05FA192
- 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, coordinates. 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: 46f1dbef1594480f19155fe040b84965fea7255ea4fe680beed1e7091ac37d25; retrieved 2026-09-20T17:57:42.618Z.