Piper PA-23-250 accident near Sellersburg, IN
On October 20, 1994, a Piper PA-23-250 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Sellersburg, IN. 5 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- October 20, 1994
- Place
- Sellersburg, IN
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-23-250 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 5 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 38.391°N, 85.750°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001206X02397
NTSB summary
History of Flight On October 20, 1994, at 0035 eastern standard time (est), 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
Probable cause
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO FOLLOW IFR PROCEDURES BY ALLOWING THE AIRCRAFT TO DEVIATE LEFT OF THE ILS LOCALIZER COURSE, BY NOT MAINTAINING THE PROPER ILS GLIDE PATH, AND BY CONTINUING DESCENT BELOW THE ILS DECISION HEIGHT.
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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.
