Beech 95-B55 accident near Avalon, CA
On October 9, 2024, a Beech 95-B55 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Avalon, CA. 5 people died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- October 9, 2024
- Place
- Avalon, CA
- Aircraft
- Beech 95-B55 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 5 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 33.403°N, 118.437°W
- NTSB ID
- 20241009195282
NTSB summary
On October 8, 2024, at 2005 Pacific daylight time, a Beech 95-B55, N73WA, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Avalon, California. The pilot, two pilot rated passengers, and two student pilot passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. On the afternoon of October 8, a flight instructor and two student pilots were preparing to depart Catalina Airport (AVX), Avalon, in a rented, single engine airplane. The rental airplane experienced a magneto malfunction during preflight, which prevented them from departing. The stranded pilots contacted the flight school they had rented the airplane from and were informed another airplane would fly to AVX from Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO), Santa Monica, California, to pick them up and fly them back to SMO. Catalina Airport is a non-towered airport located on a flat plateau with descending terrain on either end of the runway. The reported airport elevation is 1,601 ft mean sea level (msl). Airport operating hours are 0800-1700 and the single concrete runway, runway 4/22, was not equipped with runway lighting and night operations are not permitted. Information provided by the flight school indicated that the responding airplane was not operated by the flight school and belonged to an acquaintance of the owner of the flight school. The airport manager at AVX stated that he gave the pilots permission to land at AVX after closing hours, and relayed to them they had to depart before sundown at 1831. The airplane subsequently landed at AVX a
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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.
