Beech 35 accident near Hilltown Township, PA
On February 24, 2022, a Beech 35 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Hilltown Township, PA. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- February 24, 2022
- Place
- Hilltown Township, PA
- Aircraft
- Beech 35 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 40.348°N, 75.279°W
- NTSB ID
- 20220225104702
Official records · ERA22FA137
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn February 24, 2022, about 1656 eastern standard time, a Beech 35-C33, N6129V, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Hilltown Township, Pennsylvania. The flight instructor and the pilot receiving instruction were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The pilot receiving instruction owned the airplane and had successfully completed the commercial pilot written examination. The purpose of the accident flight was to prepare him for the commercial pilot practical examination. Review of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data revealed that the airplane departed Doylestown Airport (DYL), Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 1626. The data also showed that the airplane, while maneuvering at an altitude of about 2,000 ft mean sea level (about 1,600 ft above ground level), the airplane began to descend. A witness to the accident was a licensed private pilot who tended to look up at the sky as small airplanes flew over. When the witness was standing in his neighbor’s driveway, he heard a single-engine airplane overhead and thought the airplane’s engine was loud and the airspeed was slow, which indicated to him that the airplane was most likely in a steep climb to practice a stall. By the time that he looked up at the sky again, he saw the airplane “diving, almost straight down” and “twisting toward the ground.” The airplane was out of the witness’ view after it descended behind a tree line. The witness then saw “a black ball of smoke.” The airplane impacted a res
Probable cause
The pilots’ exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack while practicing maneuvers during an instructional flight, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and and a loss of airplane control.
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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.
