Piper PA-31 Cheyenne crash, Feb 23, 1979 (3 killed), Balt...
Piper PA-31 Cheyenne accident on February 23, 1979 near Baltimore-Washington-Thurgood Marshall Maryland, United States with 3 fatalities. Cause:...
- Date: February 23, 1979
- Aircraft: Piper PA-31 Cheyenne
- Location: Baltimore-Washington-Thurgood Marshall Maryland, United States
- Fatalities: 3
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Collision with power cables on final approach, followed by uncontrolled collision with the ground during an IFR approach in fog and low ceiling (NTSB IAD79FA033).
Private Piper PA-31T Cheyenne I N6123A from Lynchburg struck power cables on final approach to Baltimore in fog and low ceiling. It then went out of control while trailing wire and crashed in flames a few hundred yards short of the runway threshold at Baltimore-Washington on 23 February 1979. Three of the four occupants were killed.