CommutAir Flight 4281

On Friday, January 3, 1992, a Beechcraft 1900 operating CommutAir Flight 4821 crashed into a wooded hillside near Gabriels, New York while conducting an ILS approach to Runway 23 at the Adirondack Regional Airport. The cause of the accident was determined to be pilot error. There were two people killed in the crash, and two survivors.

CommutAir Flight 4821
A Beechcraft 1900C similar to the accident aircraft
Date3 January 1992 (1992-01-03)
SummaryLoss of control on approach due to pilot error
Sitenear Gabriels, New York
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBeechcraft 1900C
OperatorCommutAir - DBA USAir Express
RegistrationN55000
Flight originPlattsburgh International Airport, Plattsburgh, New York
1st stopoverAdirondack Regional Airport, Saranac Lake, New York
Last stopoverAlbany International Airport, Albany, New York
DestinationNewark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey
Occupants4
Passengers2
Crew2
Fatalities2
Injuries2
Survivors2

Accident

Flight 4821 was a regularly scheduled early morning USAir Express flight from Plattsburgh, New York, to Newark, New Jersey, with intermediate stops in Saranac Lake and Albany, New York. The crew for Flight 4821 were Captain Kevin St. Germain, 30, and First Officer Dean Montana, 23. There were two passengers on board, one of which was a CommutAir employee.

During the descent into Saranac Lake, the crew descended below the glide slope and crashed into a hill at 5:45am. First Officer Montana and the company employee passenger were killed. Captain St. Germain and the other passenger survived the crash with injuries.[1]

Investigation

The NTSB blamed the pilots for the crash. Captain St. Germain failed to stabilize the approach, cross check the instruments, and descended below the minimum altitude. First Officer Montana failed to monitor the approach. The contributing factors to the crash were weather and possible precipitation static interference, which could have caused unreliable glide slope indications.[2]

References
  1. "A94_74_76" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  2. "ASN Aircraft accident Beechcraft 1900C-1 N55000 Saranac Lake-Adirondack Airport, NY (SLK)". Aviation-safety.net. 1992-01-03. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
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