- Date
- November 19, 1987, 17:25 local (22:25 UTC)
- Place
- St Clair Shores, MI
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N10ASBeech TC-45J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871119066739A
- Case key
- 13925
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While enroute to home base after delivery of revenue cargo, the pilot experienced a total loss of engine power in both engines due to fuel exhaustion. The pilot performed emergency procedures and set the aircraft up for a forced landing in a grassy field on the edge of a lake. The aircraft initially impacted a tree and the rocky berm of the shoreline. The contact with the berm caused the landing gear to break off, the aircraft swerved around and skidded backwards before coming to a rest about 150 feet from the lakeshore. Post acc invest revealed less than 2 gallons of fuel in each wing tank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10AS
- Reported as
- Beech TC-45J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 39904
- Airframe hours
- 15,800
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-1-101, 575 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Connie Kalitta Services, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · November 9, 1987 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- EWR · Newark, NJ
- Destination
- DET · Detroit, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 45
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,080 total · 80 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 240° at 18 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 25 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DTW, 7 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.
Other investigations on N10AS · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.