- Date
- January 20, 1982, 04:35 local (10:35 UTC)
- Place
- Mccomb, MS
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6242YPiper PA-23-250
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report January 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820120800919A
- Case key
- 71619
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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
Before taking off from jackson, MS, the pilot received a weather briefing by radio and filed an IFR flight plan to Mccomb, MS. During arrival at Mccomb, the weather was IFR with an indefinitely obscured ceiling at zero ft, visibility 1/2 mile in fog, wind 160 degrees at 7 knots. During an ILS localizer approach, the aircraft made contact with trees about 2900 ft from the approach end of the runway. The trees were about 50 to 60 ft tall and the ground level was approximately 400 ft MSL. The minimum descent altitude (mda) for the approach was 800 ft MSL. The initial impact point was along the centerline of the approach to runway 15. After the initial impact, the aircraft flew about 630 ft and then crashed in a wooded area about 400 ft left of the centerline of the approach. An investigation revealed no indication of a malfunction or failure of the engines.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6242Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23-250
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27-3476
- Airframe hours
- 7,354
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-E4B5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas M. Casey
- Registered owner
- Farmington Airmotive
- Departed
- Jackson, MS
- Destination
- PTK · Pontiac, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- Mccomb-Pike County, runway 15, 5,000 × 0 ft, concrete
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,920 total · 115 in this make and model · 1,851 as pilot in command · 151 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 160° at 7 knots
- Temperature
- 151 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.