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Aircraft accident brief : controlled flight into terrain : Beech King Air 200, N501RH, Stuart, Virginia, October 24, 2004

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On October 24, 2004, about 1235 eastern daylight time, 1 a Beech King Air 200, N501RH, operated by Hendrick Motorsports, Inc., crashed into mountainous terrain in Stuart, Virginia, during a missed approach to Martinsville/Blue Ridge Airport (MTV), Martinsville, Virginia. The flight was transporting Hendrick Motorsports employees and others to an automobile race in Martinsville, Virginia. The two flight crewmembers and eight passengers were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and postcrash fire. The flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan. Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) prevailed at the time of the accident.

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Aircraft accident brief : controlled flight into terrain : Beech King Air 200, N501RH, Stuart, Virginia, October 24, 2004 -- Controlled flight into terrain :

Authors

United States. National Transportation Safety Board

Subjects

Aircraft accidents--Virginia--Stuart.
Aircraft accidents--Investigation--United States.

Language

English

Published

Washington, D.C. : National Transportation Safety Board, [2006].

Publication Desc

iii, 18 p. : col. ill. ;

Series

Aircraft accident brief NTSB/AAB-06/01
Aircraft accident brief (United States. National Transportation Safety Board) NTSB/AAB-06-01.