Beech BE-76 accident near Port Orange, FL
On November 1, 2006, a Beech BE-76 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Port Orange, FL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- November 1, 2006
- Place
- Port Orange, FL
- Aircraft
- Beech BE-76 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 30.043°N, 82.604°W
- NTSB ID
- 20061109X01632
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On November 1, 2006, about 1118 eastern standard time, a Beech BE-76 Duchess, N6017U, registered to Christiansen Aviation Inc., and operated by Aussie Air Inc., as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight, crashed in Port Orange, Florida. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed. The student and commercial-rated flight instructor received fatal injuries, and the airplane was destroyed. The flight originated in Daytona Beach, Florida, the same day, about 0945. The student and instructor were engaged in instrument training aboard N6017U, and had been in radio communications contact with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Daytona Beach Approach Control Arrival Radar North controller. They had performed approaches to include the very high frequency omni-directional range (VOR) runway 17 approach, at Ormond Beach, and thereafter the instructor had requested the "hold," followed by the non-directional beacon (NDB) runway 29 approach at New Smyrna Beach. After the approach at New Smyrna Beach, the instructor initiated contact with the Daytona Beach Approach Control Arrival Radar South controller, and was being vectored for the instrument landing system (ILS) runway 7L approach, to a full stop, at Daytona Beach. As the training flight progressed, the instructor and student were given a vector, and at 1110:55 were told to contact the Daytona Beach Tower Controller. According to the FAA Daytona Beach Airport Traffic Control Tower transcript of communications, at 1112:24, a crew
Probable cause
The flight instructor's inadequate preflight planning which resulted in fuel exhaustion.
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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.
