- Date
- May 26, 1980
- Place
- Stone Mountain, GA · STONE MOUNTAIN, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4900SBeech D45
- Status
- Completed · report July 1, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19800526015529A
- Case key
- 131163
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0606 80/5/26 STONE MOUNTAIN,GA BEECH D45 CR- 0 0 2 INSTRUCTIONAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1615 N4900S PX- 0 0 0 DUAL AGE 35, 602 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 29 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - STONE MOUNTAIN DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MARIETTA,GA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- WX BRIEF AND FLIGHT PLAN AT DOBBINS AFB.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4900S
- Reported as
- Beech D45
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Stone Mountain
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4900S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.