Beech BE60 accident near Olney, IL
On May 9, 1995, a Beech BE60 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Olney, IL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- May 9, 1995
- Place
- Olney, IL
- Aircraft
- Beech BE60 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 38.730°N, 88.080°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001207X03521
NTSB summary
History of Flight On May 9, 1995, about 0711 central daylight time, a Beech BE60, N81TS, collided with the ground during a localizer (LOC) approach to runway 11 at Olney/Noble Airport, Olney, Illinois. The airplane was destroyed. The pilot and one passenger were fatally injured. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed, and an IFR flight plan had been filed. The airplane had departed Dixon, Illinois, at 0555, en route to Olney. The business flight was being conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. At 0432, the pilot of N81TS, contacted the Automated Flight Service Station and requested a standard weather briefing for a flight from Dixon, to Olney. The specialist provided the pilot the following weather information: ...airmet sierra is current for I F R...that takes in the Olney area basically...for operations above eight thousand feet icing is forecasted across this entire route...I've got scattered to broken coverage broken coverage, moderate to heavy rain showers across Illinois...Evansville's [20 mi SE of Olney] radar paints sixty percent coverage of thunderstorm heavy rain shower...they're located twenty northeast of Evansville...the forecast is optimistically calling for improvement to V F R conditions around 1000 across northern Illinois the airmet of course calls for conditions ending at afternoon...the en route forecast for widely scattered thunderstorms...generally a marginal V F R out look...at a thousand feet there's no cloud top information forecasted or reported...no pilot reports at all. The specialist continued to provide the pilot forecasts for Rockford and Dec
Probable cause
The pilot's improper IFR procedures by descending below the minimum descent altitude and not executing the published missed approach procedures. A factor in thE accident was the low overcast and fog conditions.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
