Beech V35A accident near Attalla, AL
On December 12, 2020, a Beech V35A (airplane) was involved in an accident near Attalla, AL. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- December 12, 2020
- Place
- Attalla, AL
- Aircraft
- Beech V35A · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 34.093°N, 86.087°W
- NTSB ID
- 20201213102405
Official records · ERA21LA068
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- NTSB Prepared Partial Transcription Of Communications: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn December 12, 2020, about 1249 central standard time, a Beech V35A, N5470U, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Attalla, Alabama. The airline transport pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14?Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot was flying from Kyle-Oakley Field Airport (CEY), Murray, Kentucky, to Merritt Island Airport (COI), Merritt Island, Florida. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) audio recordings and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data, the flight departed CEY under visual flight rules about 1131, and shortly after takeoff the pilot contacted Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center to obtain his instrument flight rules clearance. The flight was radar identified as being 2 miles south of CEY and was cleared to climb to 9,000 ft mean sea level (msl). The flight remained on a southerly heading until about 1133, then turned left to a southeasterly heading. Air traffic control communications were transferred to several air traffic control facilities appropriate for the route of flight as the flight climbed to about 9,000 ft msl. At 1236:35, the pilot established contact with Birmingham Air Traffic Control Tower and the controller issued the current altimeter setting. The flight remained on the southeasterly heading and altitude until 1248:09, when the airplane began a right descending turn that was not directed by the controller or announced by the pilot. At 1248:41, while flying about 7,000 ft msl the controller broadcast the call sign of the air
Probable cause
A loss of control inflight and the failure of a component of the up elevator flight control system due to fatigue, which rendered recovery from a right descending turn improbable.
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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.
