ENG19RA038 · Raytheon 390
Raytheon 390 · Incident: fire/smoke (non-impact) during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (EDSB)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG19RA038
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Unknown
Raytheon 390
- Aircraft type
- Raytheon 390
- 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
- OK-EJH
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (EDSB), Karlsruhe
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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
- Fire/smoke (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
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Hamburg, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On August 7, 2019, about 1408 coordinated universal time (UTC), a Raytheon 390 Premier 1A airplane, Czech Republic registration OK-EJH, experienced smoke/fire in the cockpit from the windshield heat system during takeoff from Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, Germany. The airplane returned to Hamburg and landed safely. There were no injuries to the 2 crew and 3 passengers on board.
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) is investigating the incident. As the state of design and manufacture of the airplane, the NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative under the provisions of Annex 13 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation to assist the BFU with their investigation.
All inquiries concerning this incident should be directed to the German BFU at:
German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation
Telefax: +49 5 31 - 35 48 - 246 Phone: +49 5 31 - 35 48 - 0
e-Mail: ops@bfu-web.de
web: www.bfu-web.de
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG19RA038
- Event ID
- 20191028X02005
- Case number
- ENG19RA038
- 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: 343aba394c478716371242419e35fc69b80075541ee0beecb96adb452c32e7cb; retrieved 2026-09-16T10:30:50.211Z.