- Date
- February 5, 1982, 14:12 local (19:12 UTC)
- Place
- Lambsburg, VA
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N75225Piper PA-32R-300
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 5, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820205002929A
- Case key
- 71346
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The aircraft was on an air taxi flight to transport 2 prisoners and was to be operated on a VFR flight plan in VFR conditions only. Prior to takeoff, the pilot had obtained 12 weather briefing. In 2 of the briefings, VFR flight was not recommended. At about 1338, he departed from winston-salem in VFR conditions on a flight to knoxville, TN. Witnesses, south of the crash site, reported seeing the aircraft heading north near interstate highway I-77. They reported the engine was steady and loud. One witness stated that the plane was flying at about 200 ft AGL, well below the mountains ahead. Reportedly, there was fog in the area and the higher elevations were completely obscured by fog. One or two minutes later they heard the crash. An investigation revealed the plane had impacted the side of a mountain while in level flight, then burned. No evidence of preimpact malfunction/failure or foul play was found. The pilot had recently been hired and this was only his second flight as pilot-in-command with this company.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75225
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R-7680280
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-K1G5D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Security Transport Corpora
- Registered owner
- Air Security Transport Corpora
- Departed
- INT · Winston Salem, NC
- Destination
- TYS · Knoxville, TN
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 600 total · 65 in this make and model · 338 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 104 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.