Leesburg - Leesburg

On January 21, 1983 at 04:30 PM, Leesburg - Leesburg experienced a crash involving Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor, operated by Raymond A. Waldrop, with the event recorded near Leesburg Florida.

The flight was categorized as private and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 1, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The aircraft crashed into a lake during a forced landing after the engines quit. The pilot-in-command had gone for a local flight with a pilot/passenger. After a few minutes of flight he announced that they did not have any fuel. The aircraft was on an approach to return when both engines began to cut out. The aircraft did not make the runway and impacted in the lake. The occupants were able to evacuate and were picked up by fishermen. The aircraft came to rest on the bottom of the lake. The aircraft had just completed a cross-country with the same pilot-in-command and no refueling was accomplished.

Aircraft reference details include registration N69K, MSN AF-625, year of manufacture 1954.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 28.8108°, -81.8779°.