Beechcraft 100 N65TD

Summary

On 10 December 1986 at about 14:45 local time, a Beechcraft 100 registered N65TD was involved in an accident near Windsor, Massachusetts, United States. 6 people were on board and 6 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

10 December 1986 at 14:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Windsor, Massachusetts, United States

Nearest airport

Pittsfield (PSF)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Beechcraft 100

Registration

N65TD

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Executive/Corporate

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Elyria → Pittsfield

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ATL87MA041

6 people died.

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

DRG ARR FOR A LOC RWY 26 APCH, THE PLT WAS ADZD THE ABYSS FAN MARKER WAS NOTAMED OUT-OF-SVC. WITH ABYSS INOP, MIN DSCNT ALT (MDA) WAS 2200'. AFTER N65TD WAS CLRD FOR THE APCH, RADAR SVC WAS TERMINATED & THE FLT WAS CLRD TO ADZY FREQ. THE CREW CONTACTED UNICOM & OBTAINED ARPT & WX ADZY. UNICOM OPERATOR ADZD WINDS LGT & VRBL, ESTD 800' OVERCAST, VIS 5 MI, SLUSH & ICE RPRTD ON RWY 1/2 HR EARLIER. AFTER THE CREW RPRTD 'PROCEDURE TURN INBND,' NO FURTHER TRANSMISSIONS WERE RECDFM THE ACFT. SUBSEQUENTLY, IT HIT TREES ON RISING TRRN AT AN ELEV OF APRX 2200', APRX 7 MI BFR REACHING THE FINAL APCH FIX (FAF, DALTON NDB). MIN ALT FOR THE APCH IN THAT AREA WAS 3000'. NO PREIMPACT PART PRBLMS WERE FND DRG THE INV. WIT- NESSES RPRTD THE ENGS SOUNDED NORMAL BFR IMPACT; MTN TOPS WERE OBSCD. ARPT ELEV WAS 1194'. RADIO TRANSCRIPTS INDCD THE CREW WERE GETTING A WEAK SIGNAL FM THE DALTON NDB. ALTHO NOT A REQD NAVAID, CHESTER VORTAC WAS DEPICTED ON THE APCH CHART AS AN ADNL SOURCE TO ID THE FAF, BUT WAS NOTAMED AS OUT-OF-SVC. THE PLT DID NOT OBTAIN NOTAMS BFR FLT.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.