ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326058
| Date: | Monday 9 April 1990 |
| Time: | 18:05 |
| Type: |  Embraer EMB-120RT Brasilia |
| Owner/operator: | Delta Connection |
| Registration: | N217AS |
| MSN: | 120011 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PW118 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 4 km from Gadsden Municipal Airport, AL (GAD) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Gadsden Municipal Airport, AL (GAD/KGAD) |
| Atlanta-William B. Hartsfield International Airport, GA (ATL/KATL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After departing Gadsden, the Embraer collided head-on with Civil Air Patrol Cessna 172 N99501 at an altitude of 5000 feet, causing the right stabilizer to separate. The Cessna crashed, but the Brasilia made a safe emergency landing.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Inadequate visual lookout by the pilots of both aircraft, which resulted in their failure to see-and-avoid oncoming traffic. A factor related to the accident was: the sun's glare, which restricted the vision of the Cessna 172 pilot."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
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