Atlanta - Greenville

On July 6, 1969 at 09:22 PM, Atlanta - Greenville experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 99 Airliner, operated by Air South, with the event recorded near Monroe Georgia.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

14 people were known to be on board, 14 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 12, passenger fatalities: 12, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Air South Flight 168 departed Atlanta at 21:07. At 21:13 the flight reported level at its assigned cruising altitude of 7,000 feet. The Beech had been cruising for eleven minutes when it attained a gradual nose down attitude due to a change in the longitudinal trim. The pilots noticed the change after about six seconds and initiated a recovery action. The horizontal stabilizer continued to move to a full nose down position. Excessive pulling force on the control column was necessary to recover from the high speed dive. The necessary stick forces for such an out-of-trim condition can exceed the capability of one pilot, and in some cases two pilots, to control. The Beech continued to descend until both wings failed at high speed, just before the airplane crashed into the ground in a near vertical attitude.

Aircraft reference details include registration N844NS, MSN U-016, year of manufacture 1968.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 33.0142°, -83.9044°.