- Date
- October 8, 1987, 16:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Sandersville, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N711LCBeech H-18
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 16, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871008060919A
- Case key
- 7651
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The cockpit began to fill with smoke during initial climb after the plt raised the ldg gear. The plt returned to the arpt and made an emergency ldg. After evacuating the acft, the plt observed that the rt engine nacelle aft of the firewall was on fire. Initial attempts by ground personnel to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful. The fire was extinguished several minutes later by a local fire dept after the acft had sustained extensive fire damage to the right wing. The acft was subsequently examined by an FAA airworthiness inspector; the exact origin of the fire was not determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N711LC
- Reported as
- Beech H-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA723
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Flite Services,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Flite Services, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- PDK · Atlanta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GA07 · Kaolin Field, runway 12, 3,800 × 75 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
- 44
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 13,496 total · 165 in this make and model · 13,370 as pilot in command · 192 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.