Mooney M20L accident near Hohenwald, TN
On November 4, 1993, a Mooney M20L (airplane) was involved in an accident near Hohenwald, TN. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- November 4, 1993
- Place
- Hohenwald, TN
- Aircraft
- Mooney M20L · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 35.551°N, 87.550°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001211X13678
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On November 3, 1993, at 2135 central standard time, a Mooney M20L, N132MP, collided with trees and terrain about two miles south-southeast of the John A. Baker Field in Hohenwald, Tennessee. The private pilot and one passenger were fatally injured. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and fire. Night, instrument meteorological conditions existed at the time, and no flight plan was filed for the business flight to Hohenwald. The flight originated in Clarksville, Tennessee, at 2056. At 1050, on November 3, 1993, a man who identified himself as the pilot of N132MP, called the Jackson, Tennessee Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS) by telephone and obtained a preflight weather briefing for a flight from Hohenwald, Tennessee, to Memphis, Tennessee. He also obtained an outlook briefing for Nashville, Tennessee. At 1128, he called Data Transformation Corporation Direct User Access Terminal System (DUATS), obtained a preflight weather briefing from Hohenwald to Memphis, and filed an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan from Hohenwald, Tennessee to Memphis (MEM). Following a flight from Hohenwald to Memphis, a man who identified himself as the pilot of N132MP, called the Jackson AFSS by telephone, and filed an IFR flight plan from Memphis to Clarksville, Tennessee (CKV). At 1617, the pilot of N132MP reported the Clarksville Airport in sight and cancelled his IFR flight plan. At 2056, he contacted Campbell Army Radar Approach Control (RAPCON) by radio, indicated that he had departed Clarksville, and was visual flight rules (VFR) southbound. At that ti
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S IMPAIRED JUDGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE BY FLYING WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS, THAT RESULTED IN HIS CONTINUATION OF VFR FLIGHT AT NIGHT IN INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC) AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE (OR CLEARANCE) FROM THE TERRAIN.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
