- Date
- April 6, 1980
- Place
- Sebring, FL · SEBRING, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N717QBeech 65-80
- Status
- Completed · report August 11, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19800406007779A
- Case key
- 130815
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1019 80/4/6 NR.SEBRING,FL BEECH 65-80 CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 42, TIME - 2200 N717Q PX- 0 0 1 OTHER UNK/NR TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SEBRING DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-2 ENGINES EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- 16 BALES OF MARIJUANA FOUND ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT.LANDED IN SWAMP.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N717Q
- Reported as
- Beech 65-80
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Sebring
N717QRegistration cancelled May 3, 2013 · Beech 65-80Airframe modelBeech 65-80Engine modelLycoming IGSO-540-B1A
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.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.