Multiple eyewitnesses located on the airport and area surrounding the accident site reported that the airplane, while flying straight and level, suddenly began a steep descent and spun near vertically to the ground. There were no additional communications received from the flight crew. About 1109, as the airplane was on a 3-mile final approach, the controllers cleared the flight for landing, which was acknowledged by the flight crew. The subsequent exchanges with the controllers there were normal. Shortly after, the flight was instructed to contact the PKB control tower.
Preliminary air traffic control communication information revealed that the flight crew were in communication with the Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center during the enroute portion the flight and that all communications with the air traffic controllers were normal with no indication of any irregularities.Īs the airplane approached PKB, the controllers cleared the flight to descend and maintain 4,000 ft msl, then subsequently cleared it for the RNAV RWY 21 approach into PKB. Preliminary Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) data revealed that after takeoff from CMH, the airplane climbed and turned on a ground track of 115° then leveled off at 11,000 ft mean sea level (msl) where it remained for most of the enroute portion of the 75-nautical mile flight. The flight originated at the John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH), Columbus, Ohio about 0640 and was enroute to Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport (PKB), Parkersburg, West Virginia. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 positioning flight. The two commercial pilots were fatally injured. On October 18, 2022, at 0709 eastern daylight time, a Beech E-90, N515GK, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident in Marietta, Ohio. Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities Parkersburg-Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport, WV (PKB/KPKB)
Columbus-John Glenn International Airport, OH (CMH/KCMH)
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