CEN23LA419 · Beech A36
Beech A36 · Accident en route
From Jack Edwards National Airport (JKA) to Sundance Airpark (HSD)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN23LA419
- 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
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
Beech A36
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 36
- 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
- N67CD
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Jack Edwards National Airport (JKA), Gulf Shores, ALTo Sundance Airpark (HSD), Oklahoma City, OK
- Aircraft age
- About 33 years (built 1990)
- 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
- En route
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
According to the pilots, the airplane operated normally during the first two hours of the cross-country instructional flight. The flight instructor reported he then noticed the fuel flow seemed a little high. When the flight instructor reduced the mixture setting, the engine began to run rough. The instructor increased the mixture, which smoothed the engine roughness. The engine ran rough again, and the instructor once again increased the mixture setting, which smoothed the engine roughness. The engine then ran rough two additional times; both times the instructor increased the mixture setting, causing the roughness to cease. The engine roughness occurred again but was worse than he previously experienced. The instructor increased the mixture control to its full forward position and decided to divert to an alternate airport. The engine lost power while en route to the alternate airport, and the flight instructor performed a hard gear-up forced landing in a field, resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage and wings. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed an adequate amount of fuel was present and a postaccident engine test run revealed no mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal engine operation.
Probable cause
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons, which resulted in a forced landing and impact with terrain.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN23LA419
- Event ID
- 20230925193124
- Case number
- CEN23LA419
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, coordinates, cause areas. 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: 045eebf02f3692080085fd9230be261a5b5b6dc9513a7b6c2a0c6cff0a543f7a; retrieved 2026-09-16T18:09:17.127Z.