| Aircraft Accident Brief: Controlled Flight Into Terrain Beech King Air 200, N501RH Stuart, Virginia Contributor(s): National Transportation Safety Board (Author) |
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ISBN: 1494787652 ISBN-13: 9781494787653 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation |
| Physical Information: 0.05" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.19 lbs) 26 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |