- Date
- April 18, 1982, 15:10 local (19:10 UTC)
- Place
- Asheville, NC
- Injuries
- 11 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N95WABeech BE-99
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 18, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820418068429I
- Case key
- 69812
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Analysis
During takeoff on a regularly scheduled passenger flight the aircraft sustained a total engine failure and flameout on the right engine. After securing the engine, the crew executed an uneventful single engine landing without further damage to the aircraft or injuries to persons. Examination of the engine revealed that the compressor turbine wheel had failed. The internal damage was confined to the wheel, vane ring, shroud and duct group. Subsequent metallurgical examination indicated that one of the compressor blades had failed in fatigue. The origin of the fatigue fracture was in the area of the root trailing edge. The reason for the fatigue initiation could not be determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95WA
- Reported as
- Beech BE-99
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U-6
- Airframe hours
- 20,958
- Engine
- P & W PT-6-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Wheeler Airlines
- Registered owner
- Wheeler Airlines
- Departed
- Asheville, NC
- Destination
- Charlotte, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- Asheville Airport, runway 34, 8,001 × 0 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 6,830 total · 1,486 in this make and model · 6,810 as pilot in command · 405 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Temperature
- 151 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NWS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N95WA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.