- Date
- January 21, 1983, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Leesburg, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N69KBeech C45H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830121002659A
- Case key
- 30760
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 crashed into a lake during a forced landing after the engines quit. The PIC had gone for a local flt with a plt/passenger. After a few minutes of flt he announced that they did not have any fuel. The acft was on an approach to return when both engines began to cut out. The acft did not make the rwy and impacted in the lake. The occupants were able to evacuate and were picked up by fishermen. The acft came to rest on the bottom of the lake. The acft had just completed a cross-country with the same PIC and no refueling was accomplished.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69K
- Reported as
- Beech C45H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AF625
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Raymond A. Waldrop
- Registered owner
- Pending
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- LEE · Leesburg Municipal, runway 31, 4,984 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,575 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 30 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.
Other investigations on N69K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.