Piper PA-46-350P accident near Peachtree City, GA
On January 16, 1996, a Piper PA-46-350P (airplane) was involved in an accident near Peachtree City, GA. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- January 16, 1996
- Place
- Peachtree City, GA
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-46-350P · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 33.390°N, 84.559°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X05089
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On January 16, 1996, at 0900 eastern standard time, a Piper PA-46-350P, N9210F, collided with a light pole at the Jim Mead Baseball complex while on final approach to Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Georgia. The business flight operated under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91 with an instrument flight plan filed. Instrument weather conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The airplane was destroyed; the commercial and private rated pilots were fatally injured. The flight departed Lakeland, Florida, at 0708 hours. At 0549, the pilot of N9210F telephoned St. Petersburg Automated Flight Service Station in St Petersburg, Florida, and requested an instrument preflight briefing from Lakeland, Florida to Graham Clark, Missouri, with an intermediate stop in Peachtree City, Georgia. The pilot received a standard preflight briefing for the entire flight. At the conclusion of the briefing, the pilot filed two flight plans. At 0708, the flight was issued a instrument flight clearance and cleared for takeoff from Lakeland, Florida. A review of the chronology of the instrument flight, disclosed that the flight received routine air traffic handling, Upon arriving into the Atlanta Air Traffic area, the pilot was instructed to contact Falcon Field Automated Surface Observation System for the current weather observation. The flight was also vectored to intercept the localizer course for the Localizer 31 approach. At 0859, Atlanta Approach terminated service with the flight, and issued the flight the current Atlanta altimeter setting. No further radio communica
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to follow the published instrument approach procedure. The fog was a factor.
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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.
