Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 16 NOV 1994 |
| Time: | 02:40 PST |
| Type: | Beechcraft C99 |
| Operator: | Ameriflight |
| Registration: | N63995 |
| C/n / msn: | U-178 |
| First flight: | 1981 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 20031 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-36 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Avenal, CA (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR), United States of America |
| Oakland International Airport, CA (OAK/KOAK), United States of America |
The Beech entered an uncontrolled descent from 10500 feet and crashed. Last radar returns indicated a continuing left turn and descent through 5600 feet msl at 18000 feet/min.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Loss of aircraft control at night by the pilot for unknown reasons." Sources:
» Air Safety Week 28.11.1994 (p. 10)
» ICAO Adrep Summary 6/95 (#4)
» NTSB
» Scramble 189(63)
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA to Oakland International Airport, CA as the crow flies is 520 km (325 miles).
Distance from Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA to Oakland International Airport, CA as the crow flies is 520 km (325 miles).
