Beechcraft 100 King Air crash, Nov 13, 1997 (1 killed), J...
Beechcraft 100 King Air accident on November 13, 1997 near Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers (Allen C. Thompson), Mississippi, United States with 1 fatality....
- Date: November 13, 1997
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 100 King Air
- Location: Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers (Allen C. Thompson), Mississippi, United States
- Fatalities: 1
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The pilot lost control of the aircraft due to spatial disorientation in instrument weather, with the weather as a related factor.
A King Air flying an ILS approach to Jackson in instrument conditions was turned onto the localizer, then lost radar and radio contact. Witnesses saw it descend steeply in a left bank with the nose down and it crashed. The NTSB attributed the accident to spatial disorientation, and the pilot had over-the-counter antihistamine and decongestant drugs in his system.