WPR25FA090 · Beech B24R
Beech B24R · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From Spanish Fork, UT to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR25FA090
- 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
- Ongoing
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Beech B24R
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 24
- 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
- N9324S
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Spanish Fork, UTTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 50 years (built 1975)
- 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 · 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
- Loss of engine power (total)
- 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 from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On February 10, 2025, about 1455 mountain standard time, a Beech B24R, N9324S, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Skull Valley, Utah. The flight instructor and student pilot were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight instructor reported that this was the first flight in the accident airplane for both he and the student pilot. After an uneventful taxi and engine run up, they departed Spanish Fork Municipal Airport/Woodhouse Field (SPK) Spanish Fork, Utah, about 1310 while using the right-wing fuel tank. About twenty minutes later, the flight instructor demonstrated the procedure for switching fuel tanks and switched to the left fuel tank and continued the flight toward the Tooele-Bolinder Field/Tooele Valley Airport (TVY) Tooele, Utah. After another twenty minutes the flight instructor switched to the right tank.
About ten minutes after switching the right tank the flight instructor heard the engine make a “strange noise,” felt a jolt and the engine lost total power. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and initiated a forced landing to an open area near the Interstate 80. While troubleshooting, the flight instructor advanced the mixture to full rich, switched the fuel tank selector to the left tank, and ensured the fuel boost pump was on, however, was unable to restore engine power. During the landing roll, to soft, lightly vegetated terrain, the left main landing gear separated, and left wing impacted the terrain, which resulted in substantial damage the aft fuselage.
The airplane was recovered to a secure facility for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR25FA090
- Event ID
- 20250211199682
- Case number
- WPR25FA090
- 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. 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: e2996e3668139da76488b7a58ba951516e76524a855fcf3eae7ef2e95cb71ddc; retrieved 2026-09-16T19:39:18.761Z.