Beech A36 accident near Dadeville, AL
On March 28, 2017, a Beech A36 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Dadeville, AL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- March 28, 2017
- Place
- Dadeville, AL
- Aircraft
- Beech A36 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 32.831°N, 85.712°W
- NTSB ID
- 20170328X53238
Official records · ERA17FA140
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- Air Traffic Control Transcripts: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn March 28, 2017, about 1200 central daylight time, a Beech A36, N8169Y, was destroyed by impact and a postcrash fire following a forced landing near Dadeville, Alabama. The commercial pilot and the passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was owned and operated by the pilot under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed for the personal flight, which departed Enterprise Municipal Airport (EDN), Enterprise, Alabama at 1118, and was destined for Upper Cumberland Regional Airport (SRB), Sparta, Tennessee. According to air traffic control and radar data from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the airplane was in cruise flight about 5,000 ft mean sea level when, at 1155:06, the pilot was instructed to change from the Atlanta Approach Control frequency to the Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center. At 1156:00, the airplane began a descent. At 1157:07, the controller radioed the pilot; that he had not contacted Atlanta Center, and the airplane had descended nearly 1,000 ft below its assigned altitude. At 1157:11, the airplane had descended to 4,025 ft when the pilot responded to the controller and declared, "N8169Y I have a… it appears to be an engine failure…declare an emergency at this time." Over the next minute, the airplane continued a northerly track before it began a turn to the west as the controller identified the closest public airport, private strip, state highway, and open areas for potential forced landing sites, which
Probable cause
A loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined due to postcrash thermal damage to the engine accessories and the airframe. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to navigate to any of the available forced landing sites within gliding distance of the airplane following the loss of engine power.
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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.
