Estado:	Final
Fecha:	14 NOV 1970
Hora:	19:36 EST
Tipo:	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
Operador:	Southern Airways
Registración:	N97S
Numéro de série:	47245/510
Año de Construcción:	1969
Horas Totales de la Célula:	3667
Motores:	2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7
Tripulación:	Fatalidades: 4 / Ocupantes: 4
Pasajeros:	Fatalidades: 71 / Ocupantes: 71
Total:	Fatalidades: 75 / Ocupantes: 75
Daños en la Aeronave:	Anulado
Consecuencias:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Ubicación:	1,6 km (1 milles) W of Huntington, WV (Estados Unidos de América)
Fase:	Aproximación (APR)
Naturaleza:	Vuelo Doméstico No Programado
Aeropuerto de Salida:	Kinston-Stallings Field, NC (ISO), Estados Unidos de América
Aeropuerto de Llegada:	Huntington-Tri-State/Milton Airport, WV (HTS), Estados Unidos de América
Número de Vuelo:	932

Descripción:
Southern Airlines Flight 932 departed Kinston, NC at 18:38 to return members of the Marshall University football team, coaching staff and other passengers to Huntington. After an uneventful flight, the crew contacted Huntington Approach Control at 19:23. The controller later cleared them for a runway 11 localizer approach. At 19:34 the flight passed the Outer Marker and they cleared to land. In weather conditions of mist and light rain with low clouds (scattered clouds at 300 feet, broken overcast at 500 feet solid overcast at 1000 feet), the aircraft descended below MDA and struck trees on a hill, approx. 1 mile short of the runway. The aircraft then crashed and caught fire.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a non precision approach under adverse weather conditions, without visual contact with the runway environment. The Board has been unable to determine the reason for this descent, although the two most likely explanations are: a) improper use of cockpit instrument data; or b) an altimetry system error."

Fuentes:
» NTSB-AAR-72-11

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