- Date
- July 11, 1992, 14:13 local (20:13 UTC)
- Place
- Cheyenne, WY
- Injuries
- 16 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N109YVBeech 1900C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920711055709I
- Case key
- 41595
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Probable cause
Failure of the fuel control unit on the left engine.
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 fuel control unit of the Beech 1900C left engine malfunctioned during climbout after takeoff from Cheyenne, WY. The pilot in command elected to land on a closed runway after feathering the propeller and shutting down the engine. She said that the aircraft was not climbing with one engine at maximum power settings, possibly because of downdrafts from a nearby thundershower. The crew landed on runway 34 with a tailwind reported as twenty knots from the south. The aircraft used all of the available runway, and the nose wheel rolled off the end.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N109YV
- Reported as
- Beech 1900C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- UC109
- Airframe hours
- 5,687
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-65B, 1,100 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Mesa Airlines, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Beech Acceptance Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · July 3, 1992 · 47 hours before
- Departed
- CYS
- Destination
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CYS · Cheyenne, runway 34, 5,200 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,241 total · 1,361 in this make and model · 1,841 as pilot in command · 248 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.