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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Beech 35BEECH · Boones Mill, VA · March 12, 1977

Date
March 12, 1977
Place
Boones Mill, VA
Phase of flight
Initial Approach-IFR
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N4459V
NTSB investigation
NTSBIAD77FA030
Reported as
Beech 35BEECH
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
581 total28 in this make and model28 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Plt could not maintain headings given by controller. Observed on radar doing 360DEG turn bfr acc.

As the FAA filed it

PLT COULD NOT MAINTAIN HEADINGS GIVEN BY CONTROLLER. OBSERVED ON RADAR DOING 360DEG TURN BFR ACC.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.