Beechcraft KING AIR 100 N41BE

Summary

On 25 October 2002 at about 06:00 local time, a Beechcraft KING AIR 100 registered N41BE, operated by Aviation Charter Inc., was involved in an accident near Eveleth, Minnesota, United States. 8 people were on board and 8 died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

25 October 2002 at 06:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Eveleth, Minnesota, United States

Nearest airport

Eveleth-Virginia Muni (EVM)

Coordinates

47.4595, -92.5391

Aircraft

Beechcraft KING AIR 100

Registration

N41BE

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Aviation Charter Inc.

Operating rule

Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

St Paul → Eveleth

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DCA03MA008

8 people died.

The flight crew's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm. On October 25, 2002, about 1022 central daylight time, a Raytheon (Beechcraft) King Air A100, N41BE, operated by Aviation Charter, Inc., crashed while the flight crew was attempting to execute the VOR approach to runway 27 at Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, Eveleth, Minnesota. The crash site was located about 1.8 nautical miles southeast of the approach end of runway 27. The two pilots and six passengers were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. The airplane was being operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 as an on-demand passenger charter flight. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.