- Date
- August 30, 1992, 15:02 local (20:02 UTC)
- Place
- Greenwood, MS
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N425TVCessna 425
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920830034009A
- Case key
- 33125
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain his descent rate resulting in an undershoot. Contributing to the accident was the chip detector failure due to improper quality control by the manufacturer.
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 corporate flight was in cruise at flight level 200 when the pilot shut down the no. 1 engine and feathered the propeller due to fluctuating oil pressure. The pilot declared an emergency and was executing a single engine approach when he noted his sink rate was high so he retracted the gear and flaps and the airplane crashed short of the runway. After the accident the chip detector on the no. 1 engine was found broken, due to the metal being too brittle, because of an improper manufacturing process.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N425TV
- Reported as
- Cessna 425
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 425 0176
- Airframe hours
- 3,483
- Engine
- P&W PT-6A-112, 450 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Daymark Foods Inc.
- Registered owner
- Hilltop Foods Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 24, 1992 · 77 hours before
- Departed
- FTY · Atlanta, GA
- Destination
- F54 · Arlington, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GWO · Greenwood Leflore, runway 18, 5,005 × 150 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,719 total · 18 in this make and model · 148 in the last 90 days · 56 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GWO, 1 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.
Other investigations on N425TV · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.