Super King Air 200
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80; Flight Crew Total 10300; Flight Crew Type 350
Workload; Training / Qualification; Time Pressure; Situational Awareness; Distraction; Communication Breakdown
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation - Altitude Overshoot; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Inflight Shutdown; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition
Human Factors; Environment - Non Weather Related; Aircraft
I was flying into a busy Class B airport talking with Approach. I was descending to 6;000 FT. My right-hand engine was having problems which required that engine to be shutdown. I had my hands full securing the right-hand engine. I did not want to declare an emergency; Approach asked twice. On my way to 6;000 FT I descended through 6;000 FT to 5;700 FT. I asked Approach if they could expedite my arrival into the airport which they did.This was my first time flying into this Class B area; the sun was setting and I was landing on Runway XX it was hard to see the airport but [I] was vectored for LOCXX got visual and landed. I did not want to declare an emergency; but I feel in a heavy workload situation I should have asked for a block altitude.
A BE-20 pilot shut an engine down on approach to a Class B airport but declined to declare an emergency.