Atlanta - Anniston - Tuscaloosa

On June 8, 1992 at 08:53 AM, Atlanta - Anniston - Tuscaloosa experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 99 Airliner, operated by GP-Express Airlines, with the event recorded near Anniston Alabama.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

6 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 3 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 50.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 4, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. This was the first day on duty in the southern region operation for both pilots. In addition, they had never flown together. During the flight, the flight crew lost awareness of their airplane's position, erroneously believed that the flight was receiving radar services from ATC, and commenced the approach from an excessive altitude and at a cruise airspeed without accomplishing the published procedure specified on the approach chart. The crew believed that the airplane was south of the airport, and turned toward the north to execute the ILS runway 05 approach. In actuality, the airplane had intercepted the back course localizer signal, and the airplane continued a controlled descent until it impacted terrain. The captain and two passengers were killed while the copilot and two other passengers were seriously injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration N118GP, MSN U-185, year of manufacture 1982.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 33.6625°, -85.8283°.