# Accident 19970814022129A: Beech 200BEECH, Dalton, GA, August 14, 1997

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 14, 1997, 06:11 local time
- Place: Dalton, GA
- Airport: Dalton Municipal
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Final Approach-IFR
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: ESYA
- Location: 34.7335° N, 84.8823° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs from the FAA’s distance and direction from , within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.7335&lon=-84.8823&mi=10
- Aircraft: N74EJ, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N74EJ-1999-01-27) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 200 (registry code 1152920, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-200) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 200BEECH
- Reported engine: PWA PT6A41
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Pilot flight hours: 2,398 total, 103 in this make and model, 208 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB MIA97FA232](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA97FA232) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19970814022129A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON CHARTER FLIGHT, CAME TO REST INVERTED IN TWO PIECES AND BURNED. (.4)THE PILOT WAS CLEARED FOR A LOCALIZER APPROACH BY ATLANTA CENTER & TOLD TO MAINTAIN 5,000 FT UNTIL CROSSING THE FINAL APPROACH FIX (FAF). NORMAL ALTITUDE AT THE FAF WAS 2,700 FT. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO LAND FROM THIS APPROACH & PERFORMED A MISSED APPROACH. HE WAS HANDED OFF TO CHATTANOOGA APPROACH, THEN WAS CLEARED TO CROSS THE FAF AT 3,000 FT & PERFORM ANOTHER LOCALIZER APPROACH. ABOUT 1 MILE FROM THE FAF, THE PILOT WAS TOLD TO CHANGE TO THE AIRPORT ADVISORY FREQUENCY. THE PILOT ACKNOWLEDGED, THEN THERE WAS NO FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH THE AIRCRAFT. A SHORT TIME LATER, WITNESSES HEARD THE AIRCRAFT CRASH NEAR THE APPROACH END OF THE RUNWAY. EXAMINATION OF THE CRASH SITE SHOWED THE AIRCRAFT HAD TOUCHED DOWN IN A GRASS AREA ABOUT 1,100 FT FROM THE END OF THE RUNWAY, WHILE ON THE LOCALIZER. PROPELLER SLASH MARKS SHOWED BOTH ENGINES WERE OPERATING AT APPROACH POWER & THE AIRCRAFT WAS AT APPROACH SPEED. NO EVIDENCE OF PRECRASH MECHANICAL FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF THE AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE, FLIGHT CONTROLS, SYSTEMS, ENGINES, OR PROPELLERS WAS FOUND. THE 0621 WEATHER WAS IN PART: 300 FT OVERCAST & 1/2 MILE VISIB        ILITY WITH FOG. MINIMUM DESCENT ALTITUDE (MDA) FOR THE LOCALIZER APPROACH WAS 1,180 FT MSL; AIRPORT ELEVATION WAS 710 FT.  THE PILOT HAD FLOWN 8 FLIGHT HRS, WAS ON DUTY FOR 13.6 HRS THE DAY BEFORE THE ACCIDENT, WAS OFF DUTY FOR ABOUT 6 HRS, & HAD ABOUT 4 HRS OF SLEEP BEFORE THE ACCIDENT FLIGHT.    (-23) SEE NARRATIVE #MIA97FA232.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB MIA97FA232](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/MIA97FA232), Aug 14, 1997: Beech 200 (N74EJ), Dalton, GA, substantial damage, 1 fatal. Probable cause: the pilot's improper IFR procedure, by failing to maintain the minimum descent altitude (MDA) during the ILS localizer approach, until the runway environment was in sight, which resulted in a…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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