# NTSB ATL87IA191: Swearingen SA-226TC, N256AM, Nashville, TN, June 26, 1987

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Incident investigation · Final report
- Date: June 26, 1987, 07:55 local (12:55 UTC)
- Place: Nashville, TN
- Coordinates: 36.109676, -86.660057 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.1097&lon=-86.6601&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 11 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report August 8, 1989
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 7337
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ATL87IA191
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/7337/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ATL87IA191

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Miscellaneous/other, landing - roll
  - airport/facilities - congested (contributing factor)
  - atc clearance - not understood, pilot in command (cause)
  - control tower service - inadequate (cause)

## Analysis

THERE WAS HVY TRAFFIC AT THE NASHVILLE METRO ARPT WHEN AIR MIDWEST FLT 4530 (SWEARINGEN SA-226TC, N256AM) ARRIVED DRG A MORNING FLT.  THE FLT CREW MADE AN ILS APCH TO RWY 31 AS ANOTHER ACFT (AMERICAN FLT 130) WAS ON AN APCH TO RWY 2L. THE 2 RWYS INTERSECTED NR THE MIDPOINT OF RWY 31. THE TWR CTLR CLRD FLT 4530 TO LND ON RWY 31, BUT INSTRUCTED THE FLT CREW TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 2L. THE FLT REPLIED WITH AN UNINTELLIGIBLE COMMENT FLWD BY '. . . AIR MIDWEST 4530'S CLEARED TO LAND, 31.'  THE TWR CTLR EXPECTED THE FLT TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 2L. HOWEVER, AFTER LNDG, FLT 4530 CONTD ITS LNDG ROLL & CROSSED RWY 2L. THE RWY INCURSION OCCURRED AS FLT 130 WAS LNDG ON RWY 2L. THE CAPT OF FLT 4530 WAS AWARE OF INTERSECT-ING RWY OPNS, BUT SAID THAT BOTH HE & THE 1ST OFFICER UNDERSTOOD THEIR CLNC INCLUDED THE USE OF THE FULL RWY. A CHECK OFTHE TWR TAPES VERIFIED THE CTLR HAD TOLD FLT 4530 TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 2L; HOWEVER, THE FLT CREW DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THAT INSTRUCTION & THE TWR CTLR FAILED TO ASK FOR AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

## Aircraft

- Registration: N256AM (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: SWEARINGEN SA-226TC
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: TC 337
- Engines: AIRESEARCH TPE-331-3 940 horsepower turbo prop
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Part 135
- Registered owner: Air Midwest
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: PAH, PADUCAH, KY
- Flight plan: IFR
- Airport: BNA, Nashville Metro, runway 31, 8,500 × 150 ft, asphalt

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 27; airline transport, flight instructor; airplane ratings: multi-engine land, single-engine land; instrument ratings: airplane; medical: class 1, valid medical--no waivers/lim.; seat: left; flight hours: 3,058 total, 1,377 in this make and model, 183 in the last 90 days

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 360° at 9 knots
- Visibility: 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature: 72 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter: 29.00 inHg
- Observed at: BNA

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.

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