ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 273938
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| Date: | Saturday 8 January 2022 |
| Time: | 19:19 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft 58 Baron |
| Owner/operator: | Airnet II LLC |
| Registration: | N585CK |
| MSN: | TH-1299 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Defiance, MO -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Saint Louis-Spirit of St. Louis Airport, MO (SUS/KSUS) |
| Denver-Centennial Airport, CO (APA/KAPA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The commercial pilots departed during night, instrument conditions on a positioning flight. After leveling off at 8,000 ft mean sea level with moderate turbulence conditions likely, the airplane slowly turned left from a west to southeast heading. The airplane continued turning left and entered a rapid descent until terrain impact. The airplane was destroyed when it impacted terrain.
Examination revealed no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Although the pilot and copilot were both instrument current, their flying experience predominantly involved visual flight rules operations. The pilot in command (PIC) did not have the required experience to operate as PIC on Part 135 flights and was the PIC of this Part 91 positioning flight to gain experience. Immediately before the accident flight, the pilot communicated to her boyfriend that she had concerns about the flight due to the weather, along with her and the copilot's instrument flying skills.
The pilot likely became spatially disoriented during night instrument conditions that included moderate turbulence. Because of the airplane's single set of flight instruments and “throwover yoke' control column, which required pulling a T-handle latch on the back of the control arm to change the yoke from one side of the cockpit to the other, the copilot likely wasn't able to assume control of the airplane. As a result, the copilot wasn't able to recover control of the airplane from its unusual attitude before impact with terrain.
Probable Cause: The pilot's loss of airplane control while flying in night instrument conditions due to spatial disorientation and the flight crew's inability to recover from an unusual airplane attitude.
Sources:
NTSB CEN22FA096
FAA register: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=585CK
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N585CK/history/20220109/0100Z/KSUS/KAPA
Accident investigation:
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Jan-2022 08:09 | gerard57 | Added |
| 09-Jan-2022 10:34 | harro | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 09-Jan-2022 10:39 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
| 09-Jan-2022 10:41 | harro | Updated [Time, Location, Category] |
| 09-Jan-2022 11:02 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 09-Jan-2022 11:57 | aaronwk | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 09-Jan-2022 13:29 | johnwg | Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative] |
| 09-Jan-2022 14:06 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jan-2022 15:40 | Captain Adam | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jan-2022 16:22 | johnwg | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Jan-2022 18:39 | RobertMB | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Jan-2022 01:36 | johnwg | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Category] |
| 12-Jan-2022 19:35 | Captain Adam | Updated [Operator, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Jan-2022 02:52 | johnwg | Updated [Operator, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Mar-2022 22:10 | Captain Adam | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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