Beech B 60 accident near Duette, FL

On March 4, 2017, a Beech B 60 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Duette, FL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.

Date

March 4, 2017

Place

Duette, FL

Aircraft

Beech B 60 · Airplane

Injuries

2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor

Damage

Destroyed

Position

27.614°N, 82.084°W

NTSB ID

20170304X55438

Official records · ERA17FA119

• Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation

Air traffic control records

• ATC - Figure 1 - OpsVue Track Data Pilot: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC - Figure 2 - FAA Radar Data Plot: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC - Figure 3 - Radar Data with OpsVue Track Plot: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov

NTSB summary

HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn March 4, 2017, about 1330 eastern standard time, a Beech B-60, N39AG, was destroyed by impact and a postcrash fire following an uncontrolled descent in Duette, Florida. The private pilot and the flight instructor were fatally injured. The airplane was owned by the pilot and operated by him under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the instructional flight that departed from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (SRQ) about 1240. According to friends and representatives of the pilot's family, the pilot had recently purchased the airplane, and the purpose of the flight was to complete the second of 2 days of ground and flight training in the airplane to meet insurance requirements. According to air traffic control (ATC) voice and radar data obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), about 10 minutes after departure from SRQ, the pilot cancelled flight following services with ATC. For about the next 30 minutes, radar data depicted an overlapping track of left and right 360° and figure-eight turns consistent with airwork performed during a training flight. The track was over a rural area northeast of SRQ and in the immediate vicinity of the accident site. Radar data from the last 30 seconds of the flight depicted the airplane travelling northwest about 1,000 ft above ground level at 104 knots groundspeed. A family, whose farm was less than 1 mile from the accident site, witnessed the accident from their property. These witnesses wer

Probable cause

The pilots' decision to perform flight training maneuvers at low airspeed at an altitude that was insufficient for stall recovery. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's inappropriate use of non-standard stall recovery techniques.

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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.