Beechcraft V-35B N6591S

Summary

On 1 September 1987 at about 15:35 local time, a Beechcraft V-35B registered N6591S was involved in an accident near Hilton Head, South Carolina, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

1 September 1987 at 15:35

Classification

Accident

Location

Hilton Head, South Carolina, United States

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Beechcraft V-35B

Registration

N6591S

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Business

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Tampa → Charleston

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ATL87FA257

2 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

PIC SAID HE HAD WX BRIEF. NOTED TSTMS OVR ATLANTIC & FOG AT ARPT. STATED HE WOULD HOLD OVR OCEAN UNTIL ARPT CLR. ACFT TRACK ON RADAR WAS INTO AREA OF TSTMS OVR OCEAN FOLLOWED BY MODE C ALTITUDE DEVIATIONS AND LOSS OF RADAR CONTACT. ACFT RECOVERED FROM OCEAN. EXAMINATION SHOWED DOWNWARD BENDING OF STABILIZERS AND TENSION SEPARATION OF BULKHEAD WHERE STABILIZERS ATTACH BUT NO IN-FLIGHT SEPARATION OF AIRFRAME. ACFT WAS MODIFIED WITH BEECH STABILIZER ROOT REINFORCEMENT KIT.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.