Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante crash, May 6, 1989 (1 killed)
Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante accident on May 6, 1989 near Columbia-Mount Pleasant-Maury County, Tennessee, United States with 1 fatality. Cause: A...
- Date: May 6, 1989
- Aircraft: Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante
- Location: Columbia-Mount Pleasant-Maury County, Tennessee, United States
- Fatalities: 1
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: A visual landing attempt in instrument conditions below the approach minimums, with the pilot descending below the proper altitude into trees and the ground.
An Embraer Bandeirante on a ferry flight from Memphis to Columbia Maury County Airport, Tennessee, struck trees short of runway 23 during a landing attempt in dense fog on 6 May 1989. One pilot was killed and the second was seriously injured.