Beech V35 accident near Powelton, GA
On April 29, 1996, a Beech V35 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Powelton, GA. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- April 29, 1996
- Place
- Powelton, GA
- Aircraft
- Beech V35 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 33.269°N, 82.970°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X05632
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On April 29, 1996, about 1211 eastern daylight time, a Beech V35, N102A, registered to a private owner, operating as a Title 14 CFR Part 91, personal flight, had an in-flight separation and crashed near Powelton, Georgia. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed and a IFR flight plan was filed. The airplane was destroyed. The commercial pilot, and one passenger were fatally injured. At 0911:29, the pilot of N102A called the Anniston, Alabama, Automated Flight Service Station (ANB AFSS), and obtained a standard pilot weather briefing for an IFR flight from Greenville, Alabama to Aiken, South Carolina. The pilot indicated to the AFSS specialist that he planned to depart around 1000 local time and was given the following weather information: "...[Montgomery] forcecasted ceilings five hundred broken, four [visibility in miles], fog and haze, with occasionally five hundred scattered twenty-five thousand scattered visibilities six...out of Alabama...they're calling for...marginal conditions with ceilings fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred, scattered to broken and maybe three to five thousand overcast, with widely scattered thunderstorm rain showers. You're beginning to get quite a bit of thunderstorm and rain shower activity uh it's trying to form a line from Charlotte, North Carolina, over around Augusta, Georgia, down towards Macon and on down to Tallahassee...that's not solid it's V F R through there right now...that's widely scattered...but all of this has developed within the last...hour and a half...another couple of hours...it could be uh form a
Probable cause
the pilot's continued flight into known adverse weather conditions, resulting in an in-flight separation of the left wing and ruddervator. Factors in this accident were: level three and four thunderstorms, intense to extreme precipitation, and severe turbulence.
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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.
