| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | October 25, 2002 |
| Time: | 10:22 |
| Location: | Eveleth, Minnesota |
| Operator: | Aviation Charter - Air Taxi |
| Flight #: | - |
| Route: | St. Paul - Eveleth |
| AC Type: | Beechcraft King Air A100 |
| Registration: | N41BE |
| cn / ln: | B-245 |
| Aboard: | 8 (passengers:6 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 8 (passengers:6 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The private charter flight crashed and burned in a wooded area 2 miles from Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport where it was scheduled to land. Weather was visibility 2 miles in freezing rain. Light snow and light fog. Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, 58, killed, along with his wife, daughter, three staff members and a crew of two. During the later stages of the approach, the flight crew failed to monitor the airplane's airspeed and allowed it to decrease to a dangerously low level and to remain below the recommended approach airspeed for about 50 seconds. The flight crew failed to recognize that a stall was imminent and allowed the airplane to enter a stall from which they did not recover. The inadequate airspeed or the full course deviation indicator needle deflection should have prompted the flight crew to execute a go-around; however, they failed to do so. |
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