North American SNJ-5 accident near Elk Park, NC
On April 28, 2000, a North American SNJ-5 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Elk Park, NC. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- April 28, 2000
- Place
- Elk Park, NC
- Aircraft
- North American SNJ-5 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 36.150°N, 81.979°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001212X20874
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On April 28, 2000, about 1612 eastern daylight time, a North American SNJ-5, N3187G, registered to a private individual, crashed on Beech Mountain, Elk Park, North Carolina, while on a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight from Hickory, North Carolina, to Indianapolis, Indiana. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed. The aircraft was destroyed and the private-rated pilot and one passenger were fatally injured. The flight originated from Hickory, the same day, about 1549. Transcripts of communications showed that at about 1357, a person identifying himself as the pilot of N3187G, called the FAA, Raleigh, North Carolina, Automated Flight Service Station, requesting to file an instrument flight rules flight plan, from Hickory, North Carolina, to Indianapolis, Indiana. The person also requested a weather briefing. The pilot filed his flight plan and requested an altitude of 10,000 feet. The pilot was given the weather briefing and told that "airmet sierra in effect across North Carolina and Virginia until you get up to the on the other side of the mountains and obscurations over the Appalachians Range over North Carolina moderate turbulence below one zero thousand ah just to the east of Hickory out over the coast you'll be going away from that area as you go up to Indianapolis and over North Carolina to the Tennessee line and across ah all but the western portion of Virginia occasional moderate rime or mixed icing from niner thousand to flight level one eight zero." The weather briefer wen
Probable cause
The inflight loss of control for undetermined reasons resulting in the airplane colliding with mountainous terrain during the uncontrolled descent.
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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.
