CHI94FA001 · Beech G35
Beech G35 · Accident: airframe, component or system failure en route
From Bemidji Regional Airport (BJI) to Rice Lake Regional Airport - Carl's Field (RIE)
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI94FA001
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Beech G35
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 35
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N4421D
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Bemidji Regional Airport (BJI), BIMIDJI, MNTo Rice Lake Regional Airport - Carl's Field (RIE), Rice Lake, WI
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · descent
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
RADAR DATA SHOWED THE AIRPLANE WAS CRUISING AT ABOUT 7500' MSL & 190 KTS GROUND SPEED & TRACKING ABOUT 140 DEGREES, WHEN IT BEGAN TO DESCEND. THE LAST RECORDED ALTITUDE WAS ABOUT 6500' MSL. WITNESSES HEARD A LOUD NOISE, THEN SAW THE AIRPLANE & DEBRIS FROM THE PLANE FALLING TO THE GROUND. THEY WERE UNABLE TO JUDGE THE AIRPLANE'S ALTITUDE WHEN IT BROKE UP. WRECKAGE WAS SCATTERED OVER A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 1.3 MILES. AN EXAM REVEALED THE V-TAIL STABILIZERS & WINGS HAD SEPARATED IN FLIGHT. THERE WAS EVIDENCE THE STABILIZERS HAD FAILED IN A DOWNWARD DIRECTION. THE RIGHT WING SEPARATED FROM THE FUSELAGE AT THE WING ROOT, & THE LEFT WING HAD SEPARATED IN 3 MAIN PIECES; THERE WAS EVIDENCE ON THE FRONT SPAR CARRY-THROUGH STRUCTURE THAT THE WINGS HAD FAILED IN A DOWNWARD DIRECTION. BOTH FRONT SEAT BELTS WERE INTACT, BUT UNLATCHED, WITH NO EVIDENCE OF DEFORMATION; THE PILOT WAS THROWN FROM THE AIRPLANE DURING THE ACCIDENT. NO PRE-ACCIDENT ANOMALIES OF THE AIRFRAME WERE FOUND.
Probable cause
IN-FLIGHT BREAKUP OF THE AIRPLANE FOR AN UNDETERMINED REASON.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI94FA001
- Event ID
- 20001211X13523
- Case number
- CHI94FA001
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 67ded2e6a871af532b6d342a68da08a6c55d85d831c5f678d05d843a6356049c; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:22:05.775Z.