Air Midwest Swearingen SA-226TC incident
Swearingen SA-226TC · Incident during landing
From Barkley Regional Airport (PAH) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL87IA191
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Swearingen SA-226TC
- Aircraft type
- Swearingen SA-226
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N256AM
- Operator
- Air Midwest
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Barkley Regional Airport (PAH), Paducah, KYTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Miscellaneous/other
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
- Control tower service › Inadequate
- Pilot in command › Atc clearance, not understood
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THERE WAS HVY TRAFFIC AT THE NASHVILLE METRO ARPT WHEN AIR MIDWEST FLT 4530 (SWEARINGEN SA-226TC, N256AM) ARRIVED DRG A MORNING FLT. THE FLT CREW MADE AN ILS APCH TO RWY 31 AS ANOTHER ACFT (AMERICAN FLT 130) WAS ON AN APCH TO RWY 2L. THE 2 RWYS INTERSECTED NR THE MIDPOINT OF RWY 31. THE TWR CTLR CLRD FLT 4530 TO LND ON RWY 31, BUT INSTRUCTED THE FLT CREW TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 2L. THE FLT REPLIED WITH AN UNINTELLIGIBLE COMMENT FLWD BY '. . . AIR MIDWEST 4530'S CLEARED TO LAND, 31.' THE TWR CTLR EXPECTED THE FLT TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 2L. HOWEVER, AFTER LNDG, FLT 4530 CONTD ITS LNDG ROLL & CROSSED RWY 2L. THE RWY INCURSION OCCURRED AS FLT 130 WAS LNDG ON RWY 2L. THE CAPT OF FLT 4530 WAS AWARE OF INTERSECT-ING RWY OPNS, BUT SAID THAT BOTH HE & THE 1ST OFFICER UNDERSTOOD THEIR CLNC INCLUDED THE USE OF THE FULL RWY. A CHECK OFTHE TWR TAPES VERIFIED THE CTLR HAD TOLD FLT 4530 TO HOLD SHORT OF RWY 2L; HOWEVER, THE FLT CREW DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THAT INSTRUCTION & THE TWR CTLR FAILED TO ASK FOR AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL87IA191
- Event ID
- 20001213X31087
- Case number
- ATL87IA191
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: b73a8b4d5e6049d4390bde9ee773f4bd1571af26cee77eb18a879ec85950f9f3; retrieved 2026-09-18T19:40:05.682Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: operator. The NTSB narrative names the operator: "AIR MIDWEST FLT 4530 (SWEARINGEN SA-226TC, N256AM) ARRIVED DRG A MORNING FLT"