- Date
- February 5, 2025, 18:48 local (Feb 6, 2025, 00:48 UTC)
- Place
- Pine Bluff, AR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N138TLBeech 58P
- Defining event
- Enroute: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250205003259A
- Case key
- 199681
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On February 5, 2025, about 1848 central standard time, a Beech 58P airplane, N138TL, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 business flight. According to the pilot, the airplane lost partial power to possibly both engines during an instrument approach. He stated that he placed all engine controls full forward, but the engines were still not producing full power. He chose to perform an off field landing due insufficient performance to make the runway. During the off-field landing, the airplane impacted wooded terrain and came to rest upright which resulted in substantial damage to both wings, fuselage, and empennage. The airplane was retained for further examination.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N138TL
- Reported as
- Beech 58P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TJ-362
- Built
- 1981
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Harvest International Ministries Inc
- Registered owner
- Harvest International Ministries Inc
- Departed
- KEQY · Monroe, NC
- Destination
- KPBF · Pine Bluff, AR
- Flight plan
- IFR
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 50° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.19 inHg
- Observed at
- KPBF
- METAR
- KPBF 050036Z AUTO 05007KT 2SM BR OVC003 11/09 A3019 RMK AO2 T01060094=
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.