ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 8815
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| Date: | Friday 11 January 1980 |
| Time: | 01:23 |
| Type: |  Cessna 441 Conquest II |
| Owner/operator: | Nichols Construction Corporation |
| Registration: | N441NC |
| MSN: | 441-0099 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Atlantic Ocean -
 Atlantic Ocean
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Baton Rouge, LA | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Following the 1979 season, NCAA football coach Robert "Bo" Rein was hired away from NC State by Louisiana State University. In January 1980, Rein took a recruiting trip to Shreveport, Louisiana. On his January 10, 1980 return trip back to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his private aircraft crashed, leaving no survivors.
Rein and experienced pilot Louis Benscotter left Shreveport in a Cessna 441 aircraft. The flight was planned to be a 40-minute trip, but when Benscotter rerouted east to avoid a storm, air traffic control lost contact with him. The aircraft climbed to 40,000 feet and kept heading due east. After being tracked on radar, the aircraft was eventually intercepted by U.S. Air National Guard Convair F-106 Delta Dart fighter aircraft over North Carolina, a thousand miles off-course and at an altitude of 41,600 ft (12,700 m), 6,600 ft (2,000 m) feet higher than its maximum certified ceiling. The military pilots could not see anyone in the cockpit and the aircraft continued on over the Atlantic Ocean, where it crashed after running out of fuel. A US Coast Guard crew spotted some debris, but no wreckage was ever recovered. The bodies of Rein and Benscotter have never been found.
The cause of the crash is undetermined but was most likely cabin depressurization causing hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, resulting in the occupants losing consciousness.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Rein#Death
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 18-Nov-2017 10:13 | wf | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport] |
| 18-Oct-2019 18:55 | Gumbo123 | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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