Accidents: May 2014
Preliminary, factual and final reports on accidents involving business aircraft.

Preliminary Report: TBM 700 Crashes into Reservoir

Daher-Socata TBM 700, Ridgway, Colo., March 22, 2014–All five people aboard the single-engine turboprop were killed when it crashed into the Ridgway Reservoir approximately 20 miles southeast of Montrose, Colo., at 2:16 p.m. The aircraft, which came to rest inverted in 70 feet of water, had departed Bartlesville Municipal Airport (BVO), Bartlesville, Okla., on a Part 91 flight at about 11 a.m. The flight plan listed the TBM’s destination as Montrose Regional Airport (MTJ). ATC cleared the pilot for the Rnav Runway 35 approach into MTJ via the yarub initial approach fix. Shortly afterward, the pilot told ATC the airplane was spinning and that he was trying to recover. Radar contact and radio communications were subsequently lost.