Piper PA-46-350P accident near Waldron, AR
On April 4, 1999, a Piper PA-46-350P (airplane) was involved in an accident near Waldron, AR. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- April 4, 1999
- Place
- Waldron, AR
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-46-350P · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 34.889°N, 94.090°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001205X00458
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On April 4, 1999, approximately 1831 central daylight time, a Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage single-engine airplane, N497CA, was destroyed after the aircraft broke up while in cruise flight near Waldron, Arkansas. The instrument rated private pilot, sole occupant of the airplane, was fatally injured. The airplane was registered to Robert R. Meredith & Co., Inc., of Rumson, New Jersey, and operated by the pilot as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 business flight. An IFR flight plan was filed for the cross-country flight that originated from New Jersey. An intermediate stop was made at Nashville, Tennessee, where the airplane was refueled. The flight departed Nashville, at 1614, on the final leg of the flight to the Addison Airport, Dallas, Texas. Following takeoff from Nashville, the pilot established initial contact with the Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), at 1625. At 1641, the Memphis ARTCC controller at the high altitude sector (R26) assigned the pilot the cruise altitude of FL240 (24,000 feet msl). At 1711, R26 confirmed with the pilot that his route of flight was to Texarkana then direct to Addison. At this time R26 asked the pilot if he would rather go direct to Addison. The pilot replied he would and R26 cleared him direct to Addison. At 1745, the Memphis ARTCC controller at the Conway high sector (R21B) asked the pilot if he copied the weather south of Little Rock. The pilot replied "ah I don't cop I don't have ah weather on ah radar yet." R21B advised the pilot that most of the aircraft going to Dallas had been deviating t
Probable cause
The pilot's encounter with adverse weather and loss of aircraft control, which resulted in exceeding the aircraft's design stress limits. Factors were the pilot's lack of total experience in the make and model of airplane, and the icing and thunderstorm weather conditions.
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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.
