19800310005079A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Beech 65-80 · Williams Island, Bahamas · March 10, 1980

Date
March 10, 1980 · 17:00 local
Place
Williams Island, Bahamas
Airport
Williams Island
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N450Q
Reported as
Beech 6580
Reported engine
Lycoming IGSO540*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,000 total300 in this make and model181 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.

Engine quit at 50 feet on takeoff. Lost airspeed. Cut power. Crashed. Failed to use engine-out procedure.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT AT 50 FEET ON TAKEOFF. LOST AIRSPEED. CUT POWER. CRASHED. FAILED TO USE ENGINE-OUT PROCEDURE.