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| Title: | Crash into terrain, Beech King Air 200, N501RH, Stuart, Virginia, October 24, 2004 |
| Micro summary: | This Beech King Air 200 crashed into terrain during a missed approach. |
| Event Time: | 2004-10-24 at 1235 EDT |
| File Name: | 2004-10-24-US.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) |
| Publishing Country: | USA |
| Report number: | NTSB/AAB-06/01NTSB/AAB-06/01 |
| Pages: | 18 |
| Site of event: | Mountainous terrain, Stuart, Virginia |
| Departure: | Concord Regional Airport (JQF), Concord, North Carolina, USA |
| Destination: | Blue Ridge Airport, Martinsville, Virginia, USA |
| Airplane Type(s): | Beech King Air 200 |
| Flight Phase: | Missed Approach |
| Registration(s): | N501RH |
| Operator(s): | Hendrick Motorsports, Inc. |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 10 |
| Fatalities: | 10 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 0 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | HISTORY OF FLIGHT On October 24, 2004, about 1235 eastern daylight time, 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. PROBABLE CAUSE The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crew’s failure to properly execute the published instrument approach procedure, including the published missed approach procedure, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain. Contributing to the cause of the accident was the flight crew’s failure to use all available navigational aids to confirm and monitor the airplane’s position during the approach. |
| Learning Keywords: | Operations - Crew Resource Management |
| Operations - Controlled Flight Into Terrain | |
| Consequence - Hull Loss |
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