- Date
- May 6, 1989, 02:00 local (07:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mt. Pleasant, TN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N95PBEmbraer EMB-110-P1
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report July 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890506010899A
- Case key
- 7890
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Probable cause
Pilot attempted to make a VFR landing in instrument conditions that were below minimums for the published instrument approach and collided with trees and the ground after allowing the airplane to descend below the proper altitude.
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
After conducting ground training all day, the instructor/director of operations and his trainee flew an EMB-110-P1 to memphis to exchange airplanes. Ground fog had started to form prior to departure. After exchanging airplanes, they made the return flight to columbia. They obtained radar vectors to the final approach course for the sdf at columbia. The thick fog resulted in a missed approach. During the missed approach, the runway was visible from above and the crew indicated that they would try for a VFR approach and landing. The airplane collided with trees 2350 feet from the runway in a wings level attitude. The tops of the trees were broken 41 feet above the runway threshold altitude. The trainee had been without rest for at least 30 hours prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N95PB
- Reported as
- Embraer EMB-110-P1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 110330
- Airframe hours
- 11,387
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-34, 783 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Line, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Flight Line, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 3, 1989 · 44 hours before
- Departed
- MEM · Memphis, TN
- Destination
- MRC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MRC · Maury County, runway 23, 5,003 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 43
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 11,020 total · 250 in this make and model · 143 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 200° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 41 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.