ATL87FA006 · Cessna 140A
Cessna 140A and Myers LITTLE TOOT 1 LITTLE TOO · Accident: midair collision on approach
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL87FA006
- 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
- Accident
- 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
- General aviation
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Cessna 140A
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 140
- 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
- N9612A
- Operator
- R. E.Bley
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo 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 91: General Aviation
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- Midair collision
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Aircraft 2 · Myers LITTLE TOOT 1 LITTLE TOO
- Aircraft type
- Myers LITTLE TOOT 1
- 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
- N8152
- Operator
- Jeff Noyes
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Middletown Regional Airport (MWO), Middletown, OHTo 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 91: General Aviation
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- Midair collision
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, poor
- Pilot in command › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Visual separation, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Visual/aural perception
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE CESSNA HIGH WING WAS IN THE TRAFFIC PATTERN DOING TOUCH AND GO'S AND WAS ON THE THIRD APCH WHEN THE HOMEBUILT BIWING ENTERED THE TRAFFIC PATTERN. THE HOMEBUILT OVERTOOK THE CESSNA ON SHORT FINAL. THE COLLISION OCCURRED ABOUT 100-200 FEET AGL. BOTH ACFT LANDED SAFELY. THE TOP OF THE LEFT WING OF THE CESSNA HAD THREE BLACK STREAKS ON IT AS WELL AS A DAMAGED LEFT AILERON. THE HOMEBUILT HAD A DAMAGED RIGHT BOTTOM WING TIP. THERE WERE TWO DISTINCT CUTS IN THE SPAR AND FABRIC. THE HOMEBUILT DID NOT HAVE A RADIO. THE DOWNWIND LEFT OF THE TRAFFIC PATTERN WAS ON A HEADING OF ALMOST DUE WEST. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN THE SUN WAS LOW ON THE WESTERN HORIZON AND THE WEATHER WAS CLEAR.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL87FA006
- Event ID
- 20001213X34905
- Case number
- ATL87FA006
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- 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. 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: bf12ae02843ae2217483270a5da86b901f75f961e16340f38f2162646fdfd7e5; retrieved 2026-09-23T13:48:29.912Z.