- Date
- May 23, 1989, 03:00 local (10:00 UTC)
- Place
- Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic Ocean)
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5548XAyres S2R
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 26415
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Probable cause
The pilot's continued flight from VMC to IMC, with icing conditions, from which recovery was not successful.
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 aircraft departed shannon, ireland under a two aircraft VFR flight plan and had become separated during the special VFR departure. Upon approaching frontal activity N5548X was approximately 10 miles south of the companion aircraft and elected to deviate south of a storm on his course. The pilot reported to his companion aircraft, north of the storm, that he had encountered rain and then icing conditions. The aircraft was not equipped with a heated pilot system. Rescue aircraft reported that sea fog existed in the area of the accident. The inadvertent encounter with weather was not successfully resolved and the pilot received fatal injuries upon impact with the water.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5548X
- Reported as
- Ayres S2R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2425R
- Airframe hours
- 4,400
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-34AG, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pierce Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- EINN · Shannon, OF
- Destination
- BIKE · Rekjavik, OF
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 59
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 13,600 total · 2,313 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Day