Beechcraft G35 N4404D

Summary

On 3 December 1997 at about 14:42 local time, a Beechcraft G35 registered N4404D was involved in an accident near Missing. 2 people were on board and 2 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

3 December 1997 at 14:42

Classification

Accident

Location

Missing

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Beechcraft G35

Registration

N4404D

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Crestview → New Orleans

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

Unk

Light

Day

NTSB number

MIA98FAMS1

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

The private pilot was initially on a VFR flight from Crestview, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and had requested flight following from Gulfport Approach Control. The pilot encountered weather, requested and received an IFR clearance and vectors around the weather. The airplane disappeared from radar after the pilot acknowledged the IFR clearance. The airplane is missing and is presumed destroyed. The private pilot is missing and is presumed to be fatally injured. The passenger's body was located on 2/16/98, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.