- Date
- June 21, 2019, 18:22 local (Jun 22, 2019, 04:22 UTC)
- Place
- Mokuleia, HI
- Injuries
- 11 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N256TABeech 65-A90
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Abrupt maneuver
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 23, 2021
- Report
- Board-adopted at Board Meeting · Board meeting March 23, 2021
- Investigation class
- Class 2
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Hartzell Propeller, Textron Aviation, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Federal Aviation Administration AVP-100
- Safety recommendations
- Yes
- FAA report
- 20190622020029A
- Case key
- 99686
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 pilot’s aggressive takeoff maneuver, which resulted in an accelerated stall and subsequent loss of control at an altitude that was too low for recovery. Contributing to the accident were (1) the operation of the airplane near its aft center of gravity limit and the pilot’s lack of training and experience with the handling qualities of the airplane in this flight regime; (2) the failure of Oahu Parachute Center and its contract mechanic to maintain the airplane in an airworthy condition and to detect and repair the airplane’s twisted left wing, which reduced the airplane’s stall margin; and (3) the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) insufficient regulatory framework for overseeing parachute jump operations. Contributing to the pilot’s training deficiencies was the FAA’s lack of awareness that the pilot’s flight instructor was providing substandard training.
Findings · 19
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
Analysis pending
Factual narrative
Factual Pending
Aircraft
- Registration
- N256TA
- Reported as
- Beech 65-A90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ-256
- Built
- 1967
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 Series, turbo propPratt & Whitney Canada PT6 Series, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Skydiving · Part 91
- Operator
- Oahu Parachute Center
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HDH · Mokuleia, HI
- Airport
- HDH · Dillingham Airfield, runway 08, 9,007 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
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
- 42
- Injuries
- Fatal
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 13, 2017
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,086 total · 214 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- PHHI, 10 nm away
Docket · 43
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 28, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 202 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N256TA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.