- Date
- October 15, 1986, 08:05 local (15:05 UTC)
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N107QBeech K35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25353
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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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 flight was in level cruise at an altitude of 3,500 feet when the engine began to run rough. A precautionary landing was made. As the aircraft was touching down, tower personnel notified the pilot that the aircraft was on fire. The pilot evacuated the aircraft and airport fire equipment extinguished the fire. Investigation revealed that the three cylinders on the right side of the engine had not been properly secured during the recent engine overhaul. The fuel pressure line had burned away and redirected fuel to the inside of the engine cowling. The aircraft had flown a total of three hours since the installation of the overhauled engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N107Q
- Reported as
- Beech K35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-5929
- Airframe hours
- 2,669
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-C, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Christopher J. Meoli
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 13, 1986 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- YUM · Yuma, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 413 total · 23 in this make and model · 313 as pilot in command · 90 in the last 90 days · 59 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFL