Beech 95 B55 (T42A) accident near Fredericksburg, VA
On August 12, 2016, a Beech 95 B55 (T42A) (airplane) was involved in an accident near Fredericksburg, VA. 6 people died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- August 12, 2016
- Place
- Fredericksburg, VA
- Aircraft
- Beech 95 B55 (T42A) · Airplane
- Injuries
- 6 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 38.263°N, 77.453°W
- NTSB ID
- 20160812X50604
Official records · ERA16FA288
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- Air Traffic Control Communication Summaries: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn August 12, 2016, at 1222 eastern daylight time, a Beech 95-B55, N128VB, collided with trees and terrain during an aborted landing at Shannon Airport (EZF), Fredericksburg, Virginia. The private pilot and five passengers, one of whom was a commercial pilot, were fatally injured. The airplane was registered to Ross and Company PLL and operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed near the accident site at the time of the accident, and no flight plan was filed for the cross-country flight, which originated from Shelbyville Municipal Airport (GEZ), Shelbyville, Indiana, about 1015. The pilot departed Bowman Field Airport (LOU), Louisville, Kentucky, earlier in the day and flew to GEZ to pick up his commercial pilot-rated friend and four additional passengers. A lineman at GEZ stated that after the airplane landed, the pilot parked the airplane next to the fuel pump and requested that the main inboard fuel tanks be "topped off." The pilot was the only person onboard the airplane at the time. The lineman stated that after he topped off the left tank, the pilot-rated passenger requested that he "leave the right tank down an inch or two." The lineman obliged; he added a total of 40.3 gallons of fuel to the airplane. The lineman also stated that he overheard a conversation between the pilot and the pilot-rated passenger, during which the owner stated, "we have 15 gallons in each of the aux[iliary] tanks." Based on the information provided by the lineman,
Probable cause
The pilot(s) failure to maintain adequate airspeed during an attempted go-around, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack and an aerodynamic stall.
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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.
