N922VV – Douglas DC-9-32 – 1996-01-07 NTSB Accident Report

On January 07, 1996, a Douglas DC-9-32 (N922VV) was involved in an accident near Nashville, TN. The accident resulted in 5 minor injuries, with 88 people uninjured out of 93 aboard. The aircraft sustained substantial damage.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined the probable cause of this accident to be: The flight crew's improper procedures and actions (failing to contact system operations/dispatch, failing to use all available aircraft and company manuals, and prematurely resetting the ground control relay circuit breakers) in response to an in-flight abnormality, which resulted in the inadvertent in-flight activation of the ground spoilers during the approach to landing and the airplane's subsequent descent rate and excessively hard ground impact in the runway approach light area. Contributing factors in the accident were ValuJet's failure to incorporate cold weather nosegear servicing procedures in its operations and maintenance manuals, the incomplete procedural guidance contained in the ValuJet quick reference handbook, and the flight crew's inadequate knowledge and understanding of the aircraft systems.

For detailed information concerning this case, see the National Transportation Safety Board Blue Cover Report (NTSB/AAR-96/07).

This accident is documented in NTSB report MIA96FA059. AviatorDB cross-references NTSB investigation data with FAA registry records to provide comprehensive safety information for aircraft N922VV.