Convair Div of Gen Dynamics CV-340 (580) N586P

Summary

On 13 August 2004 at about 05:49 local time, a Convair Div of Gen Dynamics CV-340 (580) registered N586P, operated by Air Tahoma Inc, was involved in an accident near Florence, Kentucky, United States. 2 people were on board and one died, one had minor injuries. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

13 August 2004 at 05:49

Classification

Accident

Location

Florence, Kentucky, United States

Nearest airport

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky I (CVG)

Coordinates

38.9905, -84.6403

Aircraft

Convair Div of Gen Dynamics CV-340 (580)

Registration

N586P

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Air Tahoma Inc

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Memphis → Florence

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

NTSB number

DCA04MA068

1 person died.

fuel starvation resulting from the captain's decision not to follow approved fuel crossfeed procedures. Contributing to the accident were the captain's inadequate preflight planning, his subsequent distraction during the flight, and his lateinitiation of the in-range checklist. Further contributing to the accident was the flight crew's failure to monitor the fuel gauges and to recognize that the airplane's changing handling characteristics were caused by a fuel imbalance.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm, AAR-06/03, PB2006-910403. On August 13, 2004, about 0049 eastern daylight time, Air Tahoma, Inc., flight 185, a Convair 580, N586P, crashed about 1 mile south of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), Covington, Kentucky, while on approach to runway 36R. The first officer was killed, and the captain received minor injuries. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces. The flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 as a cargo flight for DHL Express from Memphis International Airport, Memphis, Tennessee, to CVG. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.