There are many unforgettable days from my 20 years of traffic reporting on WSB Radio, but few can top what took place on May 8, 2015, along I-285 in Doraville.
At around 10:10 a.m., a Piper PA-32R-300 took off from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport with four people on board. A contaminated fuel line caused the flight to struggle gaining altitude, the NTSB report stated. The pilot’s last transmission to air traffic control at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport was “we’re going down here at the intersection.”
The Piper hit the median wall of I-285/eastbound (Inner Loop) right between the exit and entrance ramps at Peachtree Boulevard (Exit 31). All four people, en route to a graduation at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, died. As tragic as that was, the crash miraculously did not hurt anyone on the ground…