6/15 2230Z (1730 local Thursday afternoon): The pilot of a Be95 “diverted due to possible low fuel.” Subsequently the pilot “attempted a controlled landing in a cornfield” at Edna, Texas. The pilot, alone in the aircraft, was not injured; damage to the Travel Air is “unknown”. N99PL (TD-285) is registered in Brookshire, Texas.
(“Precautionary landing in a field/low fuel”–there is nothing else online about this event as of this writing. The aircraft has not appeared on FlightAware since October 2020).
New NTSB reports this week
Events previously reported in the Weekly Accident Update
There are no newly posted piston Beech NTSB reports this week.
This concludes the Piston Beechcraft Accidents 6/15/2022 – 6/22/2023.
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