14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Friday, December 14, 2012 in Amarillo, TX
Aircraft: BEECH E-90, registration: N67PS
Injuries: 2 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On December 14, 2012, about 1805 central standard time, a Beechcraft E-90 airplane, N67PS, impacted terrain following an inflight break-up near Amarillo, Texas. The commercial rated pilot and passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was substantially damaged. The airplane was registered to O'Neal Aviation LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and operated by a private individual. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight plan was filed for the 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The flight originated from the Rick Husband International airport (KAMA), Amarillo, Texas, about 1750, and destined for the Fort Worth Meacham Airport (KFTW), Fort Worth, Texas.
According to preliminary air traffic control communications and radar data, air traffic control transferred the airplane from AMA departure control to Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC). The ARTCC controller reportedly cleared the airplane to flight level 210, and gave the pilot permission to deviate east of the airplane’s route for weather and traffic avoidance. Shortly thereafter, the airplane appeared to turn to the north, and the pilot did not respond to the controller’s radio transmission about the turn.
The Texas Department of Public Safety located the airplane wreckage about 20 miles south of KAMA on open, rolling hill ranch land. The airplane’s outer wing sections, engines, elevators, vertical and horizontal stabilizers were separated from the fuselage and located in several directions from the main wreckage, at distances up to one-half mile.
Kelly D. O'Neal, age 57, a resident of Colorado Springs for 30 years, passed away on Friday, December 14, 2012 as a result of a plane crash in Amarillo, Texas. He was a self-employed dentist, loving husband, father, and brother. Kelly Donald O'Neal was born on September 30, 1955 in Amarillo, Texas to Robert Donald and Dorothy (Roberson) O'Neal. He was a 1973 graduate of Shawnee Mission West High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in 1977, from the University of Missouri School of Dentistry with a Doctorate in Dental Surgery in 1981, from the University of Northern Colorado with a Masters in Business and Health Care Administration in 1985, and from University of Texas School of Dentistry with a post-graduate Preceptorship in Dental Implants in 2010-2011. He married Katherine Jo Pebley on August 7, 1981 in Kansas City, Missouri. He served his country in the United States Air Force for four years.
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Beechcraft E90 King Air, N67PS
IDENTIFICATION Regis#: 67PS Make/Model: BE9L Description: 90, A90 TO E90 KING AIR (T-44, VC-6) Date: 12/15/2012 Time: 0005 Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N Damage: Destroyed LOCATION City: WAYSIDE State: TX Country: US DESCRIPTION AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE 2 PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, SUBJECT OF AN ALERT NOTICE, WRECKAGE LOCATED 10 MILES FROM WAYSIDE, TX INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 2 # Crew: 2 Fat: 2 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: OTHER DATA Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER FAA FSDO: LUBBOCK, TX (SW13) Entry date: 12/17/2012