- Date
- April 25, 1985, 06:43 local (11:43 UTC)
- Place
- Fishersville, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N67ABeech E18S
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850425075299A
- Case key
- 11175
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
Weather conditions in charlottesville, Virginia, the intended destination, resulted in a missed approach and diversion to shenandoah valley airport, where two more missed approaches were executed. On the climb out from the second missed approach, the left engine failed from fuel exhaustion, according to the pilot, after the accident. The left propeller was feathered and the plt informed Washington center of the situation and requested vectors to waynesboro airport. While enroute to waynesboro, the right engine began to run rough and level flight could not be maintained. Shortly afterwards the right engine failed. The plt landed in a field, continued over an embankment, and came to rest on Virginia route 608. Initial inspection of the acft revealed little or no fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67A
- Reported as
- Beech E18S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- BA 217
- Airframe hours
- 10,120
- Engine
- P&W R985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Mountain Air Cargo
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 8, 1985
- Departed
- RIC · Richmond, VA
- Destination
- CHO · Charlottesville, VA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- W13 · Waynesboro
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,550 total · 362 in this make and model · 1,300 as pilot in command · 86 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 125 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHO, 27 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.