ATL84FA119 · Piper PA-31T
Piper PA-31T and Beech 200C · Accident: midair collision en route
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL84FA119
- 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 · Piper PA-31T
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-31
- 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
- N9162Y
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Pompano Beach Airpark (PMP), Pompano Beach, FLTo Richmond International Airport (RIC), Richmond, VA
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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 · Beech 200C
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 200
- 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
- N390AC
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From W27 · Smithfield, NCTo 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
- En route · cruise
- 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 › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
A PIPER PA-31T, N9162Y, & A BEECH 200C, N390AC, WERE INVOLVED IN A MIDAIR COLLISION WHILE BOTH WERE CRUISING AT 17,500 FT IN UNLIMITED VISIBILITY. THE PIPER WAS TRACKING INBOUND ON THE 210 DEG RADIAL OF THE RICHMOND VOR. THE BEECH WAS TRACKING INBOUND ON THE 340 DEG RADIAL OF THE WILMINGTON VOR. BOTH ACFT WERE SUBSTANTALLY DAMAGED, BUT BOTH AIRCREW WERE ABLE TO CONTINUE FLYING & LAND SAFELY. THE PLT OF THE PIPER SAID THAT HE SAW A TAN FLASH JUST BEFORE THE COLLISION. THE PILOT OF THE BEECH DID NOT SEE THE PIPER. THE COCKPIT VIEW OF THE PA-31 PILOT WAS SOMEWHAT RESTRICTED BY THE LEFT, WINDSHIELD SIDE POST. LIKEWISE, THE BEECH PLT'S VIEW WAS SOMEWHAT RESTRICTED BY THE WINDSHIELD CENTER POST & THE WINDSHIELD WIPER ARM. THE ACFT CONVERGED ON ONEANOTHER WITH A COLOSURE SPEED OF ABOUT 420 KTS & IN THE SAME GENERAL DIRECTIONS THAT THE PLTS' VIEW WERE OBSTRUCTED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL84FA119
- Event ID
- 20001214X38941
- Case number
- ATL84FA119
- 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: 020611cc03b04b7b183099783a8ddd6d02500bd60f9ff3d6a90f2a9e983f7753; retrieved 2026-09-23T20:46:42.679Z.