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FAA NTSB Report

Date: 18 MAR 2006
Time: ca 14:48
Type: Beechcraft C.99
Operator: Ameriflight
Registration: N54RP
C/n / msn: U-218
First flight: 1983
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-36
Crew: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: 13 km (8.1 mls) SW of Butte, MT (USA)
Phase: En route
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Helena Airport, MT (HLN/KHLN), USA
Destination airport: Butte (Bert Mooney) Airport, MT (BTM/KBTM), USA
Flightnumber: 2591

Narrative:

The Beech 99 departed Helena (HLN) at 14:35 on flight to Butte (Bert
Mooney, BTM) and was carrying only about 10 pounds of freight. The
aircraft was cleared for the VOR B approach to Butte at 14:48. Butte
controllers noted that a weather front that included icing conditions
and heavy snow had been approaching the area from the south to the
north/northeast even though a UNICOM-based Digiwx AWOS reported clear
skies with good visibility and gentle winds in the mountains. During
the descent, the airplane collided with trees and subsequently the
terrain. Search crews found the wreckage of the plane on March 20. Upon
investigation, one of the cockpit radio was found to be tuned to
123.0 MHz which is the airport's CTAF/UNICOM.

Preliminary results strongly suggest that the Beechcraft pilot
received incorrect and faulty data from a Digiwx AWOS weather reporting
station on the field at Butte (BTM) airport. FAA and NTSB continue to
probe the weather data being disseminated from this Belfort Instruments
Digiwx AWOS which has never been formally FAA commissioned. Cary Gates
from the Northwest Mountain Region of the FAA in Helena, MT notes that
the barometer setting is the only FAA Approved weather sensor on the
Digiwx AWOS weather station; all remaining weather sensors on the Digiwx
AWOS (wind direction, wind speed, temperature, dewpoint, relative
humidity, visibility, ceilometer, density altitude, condensation
altitude) are all "advisory." According to the FAA, "Advisory Use ONLY"
means not for actual in-flight aviation use. It should be noted that
Belfort Instruments website even makes mention in a disclaimer
that "weather readings shown on the Internet are advisory only."

Investors, owners & managers to SUE when Belfort Digiwx AWOS Fails:

CHIEF OPERATING BITCH
Debra S. Alascio (maiden name: VONLANGE)
Santo V. Alascio (drunk husband)
960 Fell Street, Unit 313
Baltimore, MD 21231
DSAlascio (at) belfortinstrument.com

FORMER BELFORT PRESIDENT (who was fired)
Mark W. Decker (aka Chief Weiner Whirler)
Jennifer L. Racey (wife who swallows)
289 Long Point Road
Crownsville, MD 21032-1853
DOB: January 7, 1957
markwdecker (at) gmail.com

FORMER BELFORT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (who was fired)
William C. Gordon (backstabbing bastard)
Judith A. Gordon (... buddy)
13911 Manor Road, Baldwin, MD 21013

BELFORT DIRECTOR OF SALES
Ralph F. Petragnani
Elisa Petragnani (wife who swallows)
1039 Old Bay Ridge Road
Annapolis, MD 21403-4256
rpetragnani (at) belfortinstrument.com

BELFORT & GAMMA SCIENTIFIC CO-OWNER
Bruce R. Robinson (serves as Chief Asshole at Utilipoint International)
60 Paako Drive
Sandia Park, NM 87047
brobinson (at) utilipoint.com
http://www.utilipoint.com/team/robinson.asp

BELFORT & GAMMA SCIENTIFIC CO-OWNER
Nicholas C. Kaufman
13667 Marsh Harbor Drive North
Jacksonville, FL 32225
cs (at) quickstrategy.com
http://www.quickstrategy.com/advisors.jsp

BELFORT INSTRUMENT DIGIWX AWOS SUPPORT
M. Tylor Burton III
Jane M. Burton (wife who swallows)
25 Dunvegan Road
Catonsville, MD 21228
tylorb (at) gmail.com