- Date
- December 27, 1983, 12:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Marquez, NM
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9121SBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831227063379A
- Case key
- 21097
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 acft was flown at altitudes up to 15000 ft in areas of forecast icing. The acft was not equipped with oxygen. The acft was flown above 14000 ft for about 20 minutes after which it descended into icing conditions. Shortly thereafter, the acft made a climb under ATC directions and then radar showed it making a rapid descent. The plt had told the controller that the acft had picked up about 1/2 inch of rime ice. Radar contact was lost shortly after a readout at 10400 ft. further attempts at communications failed. Later, the acft was found where it had crashed in a steep, vertically banked dive at a high rate of speed. Rime ice was found in the snow next to the elevator counterweight. The elevator trim was found trimmed to a nose-up position. The acft was equipped with deicing/anti-icing equipment & an autopilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9121S
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-783
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Charles F. Mccool,Frey Ass.Inc
- Registered owner
- Charles J. Volpe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PUB · Pueblo,, CO
- Destination
- PRC · Prescott, AZ
- 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,313 total · 26 in this make and model · 1,263 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 26 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABQ, 41 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.