- Date
- October 25, 2002, 00:00 local (06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eveleth, MN
- Injuries
- 8 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N41BEBeech King Air 100
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 2004
- Report
- Board-adopted at Board Meeting
- Investigation class
- Class 1
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Safety recommendations
- Yes
- FAA report
- 20021025033389A
- Case key
- 55940
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Probable cause
The flight crew's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover.
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
The Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm.
On October 25, 2002, about 1022 central daylight time, a Raytheon (Beechcraft) King Air A100, N41BE, operated by Aviation Charter, Inc., crashed while the flight crew was attempting to execute the VOR approach to runway 27 at Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, Eveleth, Minnesota. The crash site was located about 1.8 nautical miles southeast of the approach end of runway 27. The two pilots and six passengers were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. The airplane was being operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 as an on-demand passenger charter flight. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.
Factual narrative
The Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2003/AAR0303.pdf
On October 25, 2002, about 1022 central daylight time, a Raytheon (Beechcraft) King Air A100, N41BE, operated by Aviation Charter, Inc., crashed while the flight crew was attempting to execute the VOR approach to runway 27 at Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, Eveleth, Minnesota. The crash site was located about 1.8 nautical miles southeast of the approach end of runway 27. The two pilots and six passengers were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. The airplane was being operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 as an on-demand passenger charter flight. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41BE
- Reported as
- Beech King Air 100
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- B-245
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28, 680 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Aviation Charter Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- STP · St Paul, MN
- Destination
- EVM · Eveleth, MN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- EVM · Eveleth-Virginia Muni, runway 27
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
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 30
- Injuries
- Fatal
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Last flight review
- August 4, 2002
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 701 total · 107 in this make and model · 160 as pilot in command · 69 in the last 90 days · 36 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 32 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- EVM, 2 nm away
Docket · 175
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 26, 2003, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 106 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.