Beechcraft D55 N318Q

29 December 1974 · El Dorado, Arkansas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 29 December 1974 at about 17:12 local time, a Beechcraft D55 registered N318Q, operated by Flight Service, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near El Dorado, Arkansas, United States. 5 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 29 December 1974 at 17:12
Classification: Accident
Location: El Dorado, Arkansas, United States
Nearest airport: Goodwin Field
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft D55
Registration: N318Q
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Flight Service
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Union Town, Ala → Hope, Ark
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4021

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
5	0	0	0	5

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

PLT BROKE OUT OF OCST MID RWY & ATTMPTD LOW VIS BLO MIN CIRCLING APCH.STATED HE WAS LOW ON FUEL.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-4021, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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