ATL84FA084 · Rockwell 690B
Rockwell 690B · Accident: in flight collision with object on approach
From Richard B Russell Airport (RMG) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL84FA084
- 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
- 4 · 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Rockwell 690B
- Aircraft type
- Rockwell 690
- 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
- N81717
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Richard B Russell Airport (RMG), Rome, GATo 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 · IFR final approach
- 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
- In flight collision with object
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Decision height, misjudged
- Pilot in command › IFR procedure, improper
- Pilot in command › Missed approach, delayed
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Greenville, SC, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
AS THE PLT WAS MAKING AN ILS APPROACH IN IMC WEATHER, THE ACFT DESCENDED INTO TREES & CRASHED ABOUT 1-1/2 MI FROM THE RWY THRESHOLD. THE DESCISION HEIGHT FOR THIS APPROACH WAS 1316 FT MSL & WAS LOCATED LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE THRESHOLD.A CONTROLLER SAID THAT THE LAST ALT READOUT HE REMEMBERS FOR THE ACFT WAS 1200 FT AT ABOUT 2 MILES FROM THRESHOLD. WHEN THE RADAR TARGET DISAPPEARED FROM THE DISPLAY, THE CONTROLLER ASKED FOR A POSITION REPORT, BUT RECEIVED NO REPLY. THE 0740 EST WX A GREENVILLE, SC WAS IN PART: SKY CONDITION ZERO OBSCURED, VISIBILITY ZERO WITH FOG, WIND CALM. THE ELEVATION OF THE CRASH SITE WAS 980 FT MSL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL84FA084
- Event ID
- 20001214X38507
- Case number
- ATL84FA084
- 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: fa4e76a3cd0b9332ef0b44428aa2763d8ea2c4f6944396919bfee77580934b66; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:41:24.091Z.