Beechcraft

What: Beech V35B, N1587L en route from Chino California to Aguanga, CA
Where: Aguanga, CA . off Highway 79, just south of the Riverside-San Diego County Line. T
When: December 20, 2008 1330 Pacific standard time
Who:
Why: Plane damaged following impact with terrain while maneuvering near Aguanga, California. The certificated private pilot and the sole passenger were killed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The flight departed the Chino Airport (CNO), Chino, California, about 1300. The airplane had impacted an open field in a nose low, wings level attitude, on a magnetic heading of 275 degrees. The airplane came to rest in an upright position. The cabin and cockpit areas were destroyed, the empennage was intact, and both wings had sustained structural damage. The nose gear, both main landing gear, and the flaps were observed in the retracted position. The engine remained attached to the fuselage, and the three-bladed propeller remained attached to the engine’s crankshaft. The presence of fuel by smell but there was no fire.

What: Beechcraft Baron registered to a party in Canada en route from Pueblo to Santa Fe, N.M
Where: the crash site was found Sunday in the Culebra mountain range near Las Animas County
When: around 10 p.m. Saturday.
Who: Two people are presumed dead
Why: Air Traffic Control lost contact with the plane around 10 p.m. Saturday. Recovery efforts will begin again Monday if weather permits.

What: single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza registered in Las Vegas
Where: off Highway 79 near Oak Grove, just south of the Riverside County town of Aguanga; north of Palomar Mountain and about 55 miles northeast of San Diego
When: Saturday 1:30 p.m.
Who: Pilot and passenger died
Why: The weather was clear, but there were windy conditions

What: small BEECH 35-B33, registration: N945T registered to the Eagle Squadron Inc en route from Tallahassee to Vandenberg Airport
Where: lost from radar over the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf off Homosassa
When: Nov. 30
Who: pilot Darien Peckham and passenger Zachary Schlitt both fatalities
Why: Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed.The last radar hit was latitude 28.47:00 North and longitude 082.54:00 west. The airplane was on a heading of 143 degrees and mode c altitude was 5,000 feet mean sea level (msl). The United States Coast Guard located debris matching the description of the airplanes colors and personal effects from the persons onboard, several miles off shore from Homosassa Bay, FL, on the morning of December 1, 2008.

Satellite weather imagery depicted a line of clouds along the front and over the last radar hit, consisting of nimbostratus to embedded cumulonimbus clouds with level 3 to 4 “heavy” intensity echoes. Sounding data has winds from the west at 50 knots at 5,000 feet, with a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. There were in-flight weather advisories issued, including an AIRMET for occasional moderate turbulence below 12,000 feet over the region.

The pilot, age 35, held a private pilot certificate with ratings for airplane single engine land, multiengine airplane, and instrument airplane. He was issued a first-class medical certificate on May 31, 2007, with no limitation. He had documented 950 total hours at that time.

The passenger, age 28, held a private pilot certificate with a rating for airplane single engine land. He was issued a third-class medical certificate on Oct 23, 2006, with no limitation. He had documented 130 total hours at that time.

What: Air Ops LLC Beechcraft Bonanza registered to TFB Aviation LLC of Mingo, Iowa. The air taxi was flying en route from from Midway Airport in Chicago when the pilot experienced problems
Where: near the Tom Sawyer State Park and the Indian Springs Golf Club, near Louisville KY
When: Thursday Morning Dec 18
Who: Pilot Evan Freeman, a 25-year-old pilot from Louisville was killed in the crash
Why: The crash is under investigation

What: Air Ops LLC Beechcraft Bonanza registered to TFB Aviation LLC of Mingo, Iowa. The air taxi was flying en route from from Midway Airport in Chicago when the pilot experienced problems
Where: near the Tom Sawyer State Park and the Indian Springs Golf Club, near Louisville KY
When: Thursday Morning Dec 18
Who: Pilot Evan Freeman, a 25-year-old pilot from Louisville was killed in the crash
Why: The crash is under investigation

What: Western Wings Corp’s 1993 Beechcraft King Air 90 twin turboprop departed Hondo Municipal Airport at 12:10 p.m.
Where: 30 miles west of Rocksprings, Texas in the Texas Hill Country (nearly eight miles down a dirt road east of Texas Highway 277)
Who: Pilot George Anthony “Tony” Kuhn rated a commercial pilot for both single-engine and multi-engine planes and once a flight instructor.
Why: Pilot reported that the autopilot controls failed and he was having trouble controlling the plane; an air traffic controller noticed the plane deviating from the flight plan, and lost radio contact at 24,000 feet.

The plane which was listed as having 3,712 hours in the air, had been offered for sale tin 2008 for $2.2 million

What: single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza
Where: orange grove a quarter mile from the Porterville Airport.
When: 9:30 Thursday morning, Thanksgiving day
Who: The three people–two adults and a child–aboard have minor to serious injuries. They have been identified as pilot John Werle, 49; Kris Goodfellow, 38; and her 8-year-old son, Bennett Watson and the boy’s black Labrador retriever
Why: Witness heard the plane; heard the plane quit; heard the crash. Possibly Werle had been flying too low on the descent and the plane failed to respond when he tried to pull up higher.

The survival of the 5 aboard the medevac Beech King Air A100 that crashed in the northern Manitoba forest is nothing less than a miracle. After fire broke out in the cockpit, and the pilot managed a crash landing in the bush, the instant the plane rolled to a stop, the pilot ran out to open the door and rushed his passengers out of the plane before it exploded.

No one was killed; and no one had worse than scratches and bruises, even the baby whose dehydrated condition had required the medical evacuation in the first place.

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pictured: Beech Bonanza
What: twin-engine Beech Baron propeller plane en route from Arkansas to Nashville International Airport
Where: 100 yards from a cluster of a half-dozen homes in a rural area on Nashville’s northwestern edge, at the intersection of Laws Road and Whites Creek Pike in Joelton.
When: November 24, 2008 10:40 a.m.
Who: The crash killed the three people aboard, Greg Secrest, 67, the pilot; Rodney (Nick) Tillman, 49, and his wife, Rebecca Ann Tillman, 42, all from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Why: Witnesses heard the plane circling, then an explosion. The plane spiraled counterclockwise as it fell from the sky. The plane was too damaged to identify