CEN18WA401 · Beech 58 P
Beech 58 P · Accident: explosion (non-impact) en route
From Les Eplatures Airport (LSGC) to Ajaccio Napoléon Bonaparte airport (LFKJ)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN18WA401
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · 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
- Not recorded
Beech 58 P
- 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
- HB-GGP
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Les Eplatures Airport (LSGC), Les EplaturesTo Ajaccio Napoléon Bonaparte airport (LFKJ), Ajaccio
- 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
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- 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
- Defining eventThe 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
- Explosion (non-impact)
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On April 28, 2018, about 0720 UTC, a Beechcraft BE-58P, Swiss registry HB-GGP, operated by a private individual, experienced an uncontained engine failure while in cruise flight near the Hautes-Alpes, France. The pilot, the sole person on board was not injured. The airplane sustained substantial damage. Day, visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident for the personal flight. The flight departed Les Eplatures Airport (LSGC), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and was en route to Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (LFKJ), Ajaccio, France.Following the uncontained engine failure, the pilot diverted to Avignon Caumont Airport (LFMV), Avignon, France, where he performed an uneventful single-engine landing. An examination of the airplane showed substantial damage to the engine and engine cowls, and minor damage on the upper wing surface near the leading edge.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the French government. Any further information may be obtained from:
Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA) pour la Securite de l'Aviation Civile Zone Sud – Batiment 153 10 rue de Paris Aeroport du Borget 93352 Le Bourget Cedex France Telephone: +33 1 49 92 72 00 Facsimile: +33 1 49 92 72 03 web: www.bea.aero
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the BEA of France.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN18WA401
- Event ID
- 20190204X63753
- Case number
- CEN18WA401
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3d4d215862c50cb1815d22c9a0e64873ee0fae2f912d59f4b6162996013873c5; retrieved 2026-09-16T08:34:51.891Z.