ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 36514
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Date: | Thursday 20 October 1994 |
Time: | 00:35 |
Type: | Piper PA-23-250 Aztec |
Owner/operator: | All American Air Inc |
Registration: | N40509 |
MSN: | 27-7405240 |
Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | two miles north of the Clark County Airport, Jeffersonville, Indiana -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Dayton, Ohio (DAY/KDAY) |
Destination airport: | Louisville, Kentucky (LOU/KLOU) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:On October 20, 1994, at 00:35 EST (Eastern Standard Time), a Piper PA-23-250, N40509, registered to All American Air, Incorporated, of Louisville, Kentucky, and piloted by an instrument rated commercial pilot, was destroyed during a collision with a stone quarry wall. The airplane had been given radar vectors for an ILS runway 18 approach at the Clark County Airport, Jeffersonville, Indiana, shortly before the accident. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The airplane had been operating on an IFR flight plan. The pilot and four passengers were fatally injured. The flight departed Dayton, Ohio, at 2347 est.
During the afternoon of October 19, 1994, the pilot of N40509 had made an IFR flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Dayton, Ohio. Before this flight he obtained a weather briefing from the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Louisville, Kentucky, Flight Service Station (FSS). During the conversation the pilot said he would "...be back tonight before midnight... ." The pilot was told that a frontal system was moving from the northwest and that it would be going "...through the Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky, area around eight to ten o'clock..." in the evening
The briefer gave the current weather conditions for Louisville, Kentucky, and Dayton, Ohio. The information showed instrument meteorological conditions for both locations. The pilot then filed two IFR flight plans for flights between the two cities.
Before departing Dayton, the pilot called the FAA's Dayton FSS for a weather update briefing. The update consisted of current weather for Dayton International Airport, Bowman, and Standiford Airport in Louisville, Kentucky. He was told that the visibility at Standiford and Bowman was two and three miles respectively. Both airports were reporting fog, according to the briefer. The pilot made minor changes to a previously filed IFR flight plan and concluded the briefing.
He did not ask for surface weather trends at either airport. The briefer did not supply temperature/dew point spreads for either airport.
At 2359, N40509 approached the Louisville, Kentucky, area. The FAA Approach Control (ATC) at the Standiford Airport advised the pilot that Bowman Airport's ceiling and visibility were "...sky partially obscured, visibility a half mile fog..." The pilot told ATC that he'll "...try the VOR 24 at Bowman and then upon the miss we'll have to come into Standiford."
At 01:52, ATC told the pilot, "...Standiford is below minimums right now...expect a VOR 24 approach at ...Bowman and I'll have the ...missed approach instructions for you momentarily." The pilot replied that if he could not complete the instrument approach and landing at Bownman Airport he "...wanted to try the ILS 18 at Clark County..."
About 10 minutes later, N40509 was cleared for the Bowman Airport VOR 24 approach. N40509 shot and reported the missed VOR approach to ATC. The ATC controller acknowledged the pilot's missed approach report and asked if the pilot wanted to do the runway 18 ILS at the Clark County Airport. The pilot confirmed his desire to do the approach.
N40509 was given heading and altitude instructions followed by the Standiford Airport's current weather: "...measured 800 overcast, visibility a quarter mile, fog, winds calm." The pilot was then given radar vectors toward the Clark County Airport. About two minutes after receiving the weather, the pilot of N40509 was told to turn the airplane to a heading 200 degrees, that he was two miles from the final approach fix, and to maintain 2,500 feet above mean sea level. He was cleared for the ILS 18 approach at Clark County Airport, Jeffersonville, Indiana. Two minutes later ATC told the pilot he was "...just inside Happs [final approach fix], now change to advisory approved... ." The pilot acknowledged ATC's communication.
N40509's wreckage was located in a stone quarry approximately two miles north of the Clark County Airport, Jeffersonville, Indiana. The airplane had collided at the midpoint of a 60-foot high quarry wall. Its wreckage was found at the base of this wall, burnt and covered with stone fragments.
Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: CHI95FA018 at
https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20001206X02397&ntsbno=CHI95FA018&akey=1 2. FAA:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=40509 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Oct-2008 10:30 |
ASN archive |
Added |
09-Aug-2016 19:36 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
09-Aug-2016 19:39 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
21-Dec-2016 19:23 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
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