# Accident 20061101025459A: Beech 76, Port Orange, FL, November 1, 2006

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 1, 2006, 11:18 local time
- Place: Port Orange, FL
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Forced Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 30.0431° N, 82.6042° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.0431&lon=-82.6042&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6017U, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6017U-2007-02-01) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 76 (registry code 1153005, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-76) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming O&VO-360 series (registry code 41514, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-vo-360-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 76
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 2
- Pilot flight hours: 487 total, 25 in this make and model, 35 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB MIA07FA011](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA07FA011) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20061101025459A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) THE FLIGHT DEPARTED DAYTONA BEACH AIRPORT WITH A FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR AND A PRIVATE PILOT STUDENT (WHO WAS RECEIVING DUAL INSTRUCTION TOWARDS HIS COMMERCIAL MULTI-ENGINE CERTIFICATE) ON BOARD. WHILE BEING VECTORED BY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR AN ILS RUNWAY 7L APPROACH INTO DAYTONA BEACH, THE PILOT DECLARED A MINIMUM FUEL ALERT. SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE PILOT DECLARED THAT HIS RIGHT ENGINE HAD CEASED OPERATING. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SUGGESTED THAT HE GO TO SPRUCE CREEK AIRPORT, WHICH WAS CLOSER THAN DAYTONA, AND THE PILOT ELECTED TO PROCEED TO SPRUCE CREEK. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, THE LEFT ENGINE FAILED. THE PILOT ATTEMPTED AN EMERGENCY LANDING INTO A BACKYARD. EVIDENCE AT THE CRASH SITE INDICATED THAT THE AIRPLANE MADE GROUND CONTACT IN A RIGHT-WING-LOW ATTITUDE WITH THE LANDING GEAR IN THE UP POSITION. THE AIRPLANE THEN STRUCK A BERM AND A FENCE WHICH CAUSED IT TO ROTATE APPROXIMATELY 180 DEGREES FROM ITS LANDING PATH. A POST-CRASH FIRE ENSUED, AND THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR AND THE STUDENT RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES. ON-SITE INVESTIGATION AND SUBSEQUENT ENGINE AND FUEL SYSTEM EXAMINATION REVEALED NO FUEL IN THE TANKS, LINES, GASCOLATORS, AND ENGINES. THE PROPELLERS, WHICH DETACHED FROM THE ENGINES BEFORE THE PLANE STRUCK THE BERM, WERE NOT FEATHERED.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB MIA07FA011](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA07FA011), Nov 1, 2006: Beech BE-76 (N6017U), Port Orange, FL, destroyed, 2 fatal. Probable cause: The flight instructor's inadequate preflight planning which resulted in fuel exhaustion.

## Other reports on N6017U (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19960911032809I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960911032809I), Sep 11, 1996: Beech 76 (N6017U), Chicago/Waukega, IL, Minor damage. Narrative: on 9-11-96, at 1306 pm Beechcraft model 76, N6017U was practicing touch and go landings at Waukegan airport. During the take off the nose landing…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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