Beechcraft 99 Airliner crash, Aug 25, 1985 (8 killed), Au...
Beechcraft 99 Airliner accident on August 25, 1985 near Auburn-Lewiston, Maine, United States with 8 fatalities. Cause: The captain continued an...
- Date: August 25, 1985
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 99 Airliner
- Location: Auburn-Lewiston, Maine, United States
- Fatalities: 8
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The captain continued an unstabilized approach and descended below the glide slope after accepting a nonstandard radar vector that caused an excessive intercept of the localizer, according to the NTSB.
Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808, a Beechcraft 99 on a scheduled service from Boston toward Bangor with a stop at Auburn Lewiston, crashed short of the runway on final approach to Auburn Lewiston Municipal Airport on 25 August 1985. All eight people aboard died, six passengers and two crew.