Accident description
Last updated: 27 January 2015
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | Saturday 6 May 1989 |
| Time: | 01:44 |
| Type: | Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante |
| Operator: | Southern Express |
| Registration: | N95PB |
| C/n / msn: | 110330 |
| First flight: | 1981 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 11387 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 0,7 km (0.4 mls) from Columbia-Maury County Airport, TN (MRC) ( United States of America)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Memphis International Airport, TN (MEM/KMEM), United States of America |
| Columbia-Maury County Airport, TN (MRC), United States of America |
The aircraft collided with trees 2350 feet from the threshold of runway 23 at Columbia. Visibility was less than 100 feet due to dense fog. The trainee pilot had been without rest for at least 30 hours prior to the accident.
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. " Classification:
VFR flight in IMC
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) - Ground
Sources:
» ICAO Adrep Summary 3/89 (#83)» NTSB
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Memphis International Airport, TN to Columbia-Maury County Airport, TN as the crow flies is 258 km (162 miles).
Distance from Memphis International Airport, TN to Columbia-Maury County Airport, TN as the crow flies is 258 km (162 miles).
