# Incident 19960807024559I: Beech 1900C, Wichita, KS, August 7, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 7, 1996, 06:50 local time
- Place: Wichita, KS
- Airport: Wichita Mid-Continent
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: AMWA
- Location: 37.6922° N, 97.3375° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Wichita, KS, within about 7 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.6922&lon=-97.3375&mi=10
- Aircraft: N142YV, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N142YV-1997-06-27) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 1900C (registry code 1154161, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-1900c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 1900C
- People aboard: 7
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 20,000 total, 4,000 in this make and model, 240 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960807024559I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NARRATIVE: ON AUGUST 07, 1996, AT 0738, A BEECH 1900-D OPERATED BY AIR MIDWEST AIRLINES, INCORPORATED, N142YV, DECLARED AN EMERGENCY IN THE VICINITY OF EMPORIA, KANSAS. DURING A SCHEDULED FLIGHT TO KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL, SKIES WERE APPROXIMATELY 10,000 FT AND OVERCAST, AND AN IFR FLIGHT PLAN HAD BEEN FILED. TAKE-OFF FROM WICHITA WAS NORMAL. LEVELING AT 17,000 FT., THE CREW HEARD A "POP", AND NOTICED THE RIGHT-HAND ENGINE UPPER FORWARD COWLING HAD POPPED LOOSE AND THE THROTTLE WAS JAMMED. THE CAPTAIN ELECTED TO SECURE THE RIGHT ENGINE AND RETURN TO WICHITA. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. NO INJURIES TO PASSENGERS OR CREW WERE NOTED. THE AIRCRAFT RECEIVED DAMAGE TO THE RIGHT PROPELLER AND THE RIGHT-HAND UPPER FORWARD ENGINE COWL. THE PILOT IN COMMAND WAS RON DEBRICK, ATP#2022211. THE FLIGHT ORIGINATED AT WICHITA, KANSAS ON AUGUST 07, 1996 AT 0630 LOCAL.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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