Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Cessna 182, N5797B: Accident occurred October 09, 2021 in Fruitland Park, Lake County, Florida

This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.

The National Transportation Safety Board did not travel to the scene of this accident.


Location: Fruitland Park, FL
Accident Number: ERA22LA013
Date & Time: October 9, 2021, 18:15 Local 
Registration: N5797B
Aircraft: Cessna 182
Injuries: 1 None
Flight Conducted Under: Part 91: General aviation - Personal

Aircraft and Owner/Operator Information

Aircraft Make: Cessna
Registration: N5797B
Model/Series: 182 
Aircraft Category: Airplane
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Crew Injuries: 1 None 
Aircraft Damage: Substantial
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Aircraft Fire: None
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Total Injuries: 1 None 
Latitude, Longitude: 28.85,81.9 (est)

McDonnell Douglas MD-87, N987AK: Accident occurred October 19, 2021 at Houston Executive Airport (KTME), Waller County, Texas

This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. 

The National Transportation Safety Board traveled to the scene of this accident. 

Additional Participating Entities:
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Houston, Texas
Boeing Air Safety Investigations
Pratt & Whitney
Everts - Safety and Security

987 Investments LLC


Location: Brookshire, Texas
Accident Number: DCA22MA009
Date and Time: October 19, 2021, 10:08 Local
Registration: N987AK
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-87
Injuries: 1 Minor, 20 None
Flight Conducted Under: Part 91: General aviation - Personal

On October 19, 2021, at about 10:00 am central daylight time, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-87, N987AK,  operated by 987 Investments LLC, overran the departure end of runway 36 at Houston Executive Airport (TME), Brookshire, Texas, after the crew executed a rejected takeoff. 

Of the 23 passengers and crew onboard the airplane, two passengers received serious injuries and one received minor injuries. A postcrash fire ensued, and the airplane was destroyed.

The airplane was operating as a 14 Code of Federal Regulation Part 91 flight from TME to Laurence G. Hanscom Field Airport (BED), Boston, Massachusetts.

Aircraft and Owner/Operator Information

Aircraft Make: McDonnell Douglas 
Registration: N987AK
Model/Series: DC-9-87
Aircraft Category: Airplane
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Crew Injuries: 3 None 
Aircraft Damage: Destroyed
Passenger Injuries: 1 Minor, 17 None 
Aircraft Fire: On-ground
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Aircraft Explosion: None
Total Injuries: 1 Minor, 20 None
Latitude, Longitude: 29.818027,-95.898046 

J. Alan Kent

Credit his southern roots for the quiet tone and dignified manner of J. Alan Kent, the native Houstonian who has become the largest landowner and developer in northwest Harris County. Governed by uncompromised professional standards and driven by a sense of philanthropic duty, the founder of J. Alan Kent Development has, for over thirty years, been quietly working to improve the lives of those around him.

Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board air safety investigators onsite.

Photo of the flight data recorder (left) and cockpit voice recorder (right) from the October 19, MD-87 plane crash near Brookshire, Texas.
National Transportation Safety Board


Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board held a news conference Thursday to discuss their investigation into the plane accident that occurred Tuesday in Brookshire. During the briefing, officials said the aircraft had not been flown since December 2020. They also detailed how those aboard got out of the aircraft and provides a status update on the black boxes recovered from the wreckage.

The NTSB is charged by Congress to investigate all civil aviation accidents. NTSB opened their investigation into the Brookshire accident Wednesday.

During a news conference Thursday, Michael Graham, a board member with the NTSB, said the investigation is in its early stages.

“Our team methodically and systematically reviews all evidence and considers all potential factors to determine the probable cause of an accident,” Graham said. “We will not jump to any conclusions.”

A team will remain onsite to gather evidence for one to two weeks. The NTSB investigator in charge is Dan Bauer. Assisting him is Senior Investigator Michael Huhn. Bauer and Huhn will be joined by several other NTSB investigators and plan to investigate the plane’s air-worthiness, its engines, accident survival factors, as well as operational factors including performance, among other things.

Graham said NTSB is analyzing the video of the MD-87 that KPRC 2 obtained yesterday and which shows the MD-87 run down the runway in an attempt to take off from the Houston Executive Airport.

The footage was captured by Harry Johnson, a pilot who works out of the Houston Executive Airport.

About eight seconds into the video, a puff of smoke can be seen coming out of one of the aircraft’s engines.

“Fortunately, the engines are in good condition on the tale at the wreckage site and will allow for a thorough examination,” Graham said.

According to NTSB, the accident flight on Tuesday was the aircraft’s first flight since December 2020. NTSB investigators are reviewing the plane’s maintenance history.

Airworthiness investigators are at the wreckage scene identifying the components they will remove from the tail section to examine further.

The investigative team assessed the runway Wednesday and documented the tire marks on the runway’s surface. Graham said the tire marks indicate hard breaking application and good tire contact with the runway’s surface and added that all tires were in contact with the runway when the aircraft ran off the runway.

“We have approximately 1,200 feet of distinct tire marks from both main landing gears on the runway,” Graham said.

The NTSB did not find any debris on the runway.

Investigators are currently interviewing the MD-87′s pilot, first officer and flight mechanic and is reviewing passenger and witness statements in preparation to interview them.

Graham said NTSB determined how the passengers and crew members got out of the plane following the accident -- The flight mechanic opened the main cabin door at the front left of the aircraft and all aboard exited the main cabin door using the automatically-inflated evacuation slide.

NTSB personnel recovered multiple black boxes from the wreckage yesterday. The CVR recorded media appears to be in good condition though NTSB is still working to download the data from it. The flight data recorder also appears to be in good condition.

Graham said Thursday’s briefing would be it’s last at the scene. All new information about the status of the investigation will come out of NTSB headquarters in Washington D.C.

Anyone with photos or videos of the accident is urged the share them with the NTSB by emailing them to witness@NTSB.gov.

At approximately 10:08 a.m. Tuesday, an MD-87 attempted to take off from runway 36 at Houston Executive Airport in Brookshire. The aircraft ran off the paved runway and struck the perimeter fence of the airport, crossed a road, hit another fence and took out the power lines between two power poles and came to a rest, NTSB officials said. The debris path suggest the plane’s left wing struck trees before the plane came to a rest in a field. A majority of the fire damage occurred after the plane came to a rest.

There were 18 passengers and three crew members onboard. The crew members consisted of two pilots and one flight mechanic. Everyone on board evacuated the aircraft and only two minor injuries were reported, Graham said.

The aircraft is owned by 987 Investments LLC. -- State records show J. Alan Kent owns the LLC.



WALLER COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Federal investigators are at the Waller County site where a private plane carrying 21 people crashed on takeoff.

Miraculously, all of the 18 passengers and three crewmembers made it out of the fiery wreckage safely. Two people were sent to the hospital.

The youngest person on board was a 10-year-old, officials said.

The crash happened shortly after takeoff mid-morning Tuesday, the plane ending up in a field at the Houston Executive Airport, near Brookshire, Texas.

Photos obtained by ABC13 show black smoke coming from a field around the scene of the crash.

From above the scene, SkyEye captured firefighters attempting to douse flames of the wreckage, with the aircraft tail intact.

Since the incident, FAA officials identified the aircraft as a McDonnell Douglas MD-87, adding that the plane rolled through a fence and caught fire in a field while attempting to depart the executive airport just after 10 a.m. CT.

"During the departure, it looked like a normal departure. Like I said, once it got behind the hangers I could not tell myself what was going on with the aircraft," said the airport's executive director Andrew Perry. "It should have been up in the air. I knew something was wrong and then a couple of seconds later, we saw the fireball and went rushing to the scene."

Eyewitness News learned the plane is registered under the name of J. Alan Kent, who is the corporate owner of Flair Builders, a custom home builder based in Spring.

J. Alan Kent, a builder from the Spring area, is OK after he was aboard the plane during the crash.

In a phone call with Kent, he confirmed he was on board at the time of the crash and that the group was headed to Boston for a trip to the American League Championship Series game between the Astros and the Red Sox.

The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation. They are expected to provide an update later Wednesday.

Meanwhile, utility company CenterPoint Energy said an outage impacting more than 1,800 customers near the scene of the crash was caused by the plane taking out an overhead powerline during takeoff.

Cessna P337H Pressurized Skymaster, N4CZ: Incident occurred October 19, 2021 at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (KBJC), Jefferson County, Colorado

Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Denver, Colorado

Aircraft landed with partial gear up.  

Great Skymaster 4CZ Exploration Company LLC 


Date: 19-OCT-21
Time: 19:16:00Z
Regis#: N4CZ
Aircraft Make: CESSBA
Aircraft Model: P337
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: PERSONAL
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 91
City: DENVER
State: COLORADO