On April 4, 1998 at 1034 eastern standard time, N111LR, a Cessna 525 CitiationJEt, and N737Wd, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, collided in flight over Marietta, Georgia. Visual meteorological conditions (VMC) prevailed at the time of the accident. The CitationJet departed from the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport about 1030 on an instrument flight pplan to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Skyhawk departed Mathis Airfield, near Cummings, Georgia, about 1025 under visual flight rules. the CitationJet was initially cleared to depart runway 34 and climb on runway heading to 3,000 feet. At 1032:14, it was assigned heading 280 degrees by Atlanta Terminal radar Approach Control (TRACON). At 1032:54, the CitationJet was assigned heading 360 degrees and cleared to climb to 4,000 feet. At 1033:55, it was cleared to climb to 9,000 feet. According to recorded radar data, at 1034:03 the CitationJet was climbing through 3,400 feet when its transponder target merged with an untracked primary target later identified as N737WD.
On April 19, 1999, at about 12:46 p.m. eastern daylight time, a Beech T-34A, N140SW, operated by Sky Warriors, Inc., collided with the ground near Ryd...
On October 15, 1998, Delta Air Lines flight 915, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88, N902DE, experienced an uncontained failure in the No. 2 (right) engine, a ...
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