- Date
- January 23, 2008, 10:30 local (10:30 UTC)
- Place
- Cherbourg, France
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2326YBeech 58P
- Defining event
- Enroute: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC)
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- BEA - France
- Case key
- 67437
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Fuel exhaustionBeech 58P: 1 caseAll aircraft: 804 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2326Y
- Reported as
- Beech 58P
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator
- Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee
- Departed
- EGBE · Coventry
- Destination
- EGJB · Guernsey
- Flight plan
- Unknown
N2326YRegistration cancelled Dec 21, 2009 · Beech 58PAirframe modelBeech 58PEngine modelContinental TSIO-520 series
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC)
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 6.2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.36 inHg
- Observed at
- LFRC