Cessna 402A N7884J

Summary

On 23 June 1995 at about 14:54 local time, a Cessna 402A registered N7884J was involved in an accident near Miami, Florida, United States. One person was on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

23 June 1995 at 14:54

Classification

Accident

Location

Miami, Florida, United States

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Cessna 402A

Registration

N7884J

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Positioning

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Marsh Harbor → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

MIA95FA155

1 person was seriously injured.

The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain airspeed (VMC) after loss of power of one engine while on final approach, resulting in an in-flight loss of control and subsequent in-flight collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was a total loss of engine power of the right engine due to fuel exhaustion.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

Witnesses stated they observed the airplane descending to the right of the final approach path with the landing gear down and an engine was heard sputtering. The wings of the airplane were observed to be rocking back and forth. The airplane rolled right 90 degrees. The nose pitched up, rolled inverted, collided with a parking lot and slid in between a front end loader and a dump truck.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.