- Date
- September 16, 1989, 08:55 local (13:55 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N204AJBeech BE 100
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890916035059A
- Case key
- 22788
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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Probable cause
The inadequate preflight planning preparation & the improper inflight planning/decision by the PIC when he failed to refuel the aircraft which resulted in a total loss of power in both engines.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The airplane was on a positioning flight and had two passengers along for the ride. The airplane was on base leg when the left engine sputtered. The pilot turned on the secondary boost pump and the engine operated normally until both engines flamed out. During the forced landing in a residential area, the airplane hit a powerline, trees, a house, a fireplug, a tree and a van, then another house. There was no smell of fuel in the entire area, and no usable fuel in the fuel system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N204AJ
- Reported as
- Beech BE 100
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- B10
- Airframe hours
- 7,351
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-28, 680 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Aviex Jet, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · August 23, 1989 · 59 hours before
- Departed
- NEW · New Orleans, LA
- Destination
- HOU
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
- 29
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,787 total · 48 in this make and model · 2,155 as pilot in command · 281 in the last 90 days · 68 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HOU, 2 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.