Wiggins BE99 Down in Maine

[A1Topgun]

Weather was clear yesterday, what went wrong?

NTSB: Plane was on training flight before crash that left no survivors in Litchfield

An NTSB official called the descent angle of the plane prior to the crash 'fairly steep' at 25 degrees.

www.wmtw.com

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/WIG634/history/20230822/2130ZZ/KLEW/ME6

Wiggins is the local FedEx connection.

 

[Pugs]

My wife and I flew up to Bar Harbor from Laconia for lunch yesterday and came back a couple hours before the mishap. Nice day to fly But the winds picked up as we came home and I was surprised at the mountain wave off the relatively small mountains.

 

[Jim Carpenter]

Two on board, perhaps a training flight gone wrong?
RIP

 

[Flying Keys]

It looks like they had completed the ILS Rwy 4 at KLEW and were flying the published missed to a hold at MOYER. They made a direct entry, were a little wobbly in altitude throughout the turn and the outbound leg - the published altitude in that hold is 3000. They entered at at ADS-B altitude of 2900 (take that with a grain of salt), but at some points were 2-300 feet under that while turning outbound. Everything seemed to go bad in the turn back into the inbound leg. It was a -10,000 fpm dive with increasing groundspeed at the last ping.

Nothing really remarkable about the METAR.

KLEW 222056Z AUTO 31012G18KT 10SM CLR 24/08 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP175 T02440083 55002

Real mystery. There shouldn’t be any LOC issues with two pilots on a clear day.

 

[A1Topgun]

News tonight said it was a training flight, no FedEx cargo.