| Crash location | 31.883889°N, 82.641666°W
Reported location is a long distance from the NTSB's reported nearest city. This often means that the location has a typo, or is incorrect. |
| Nearest city | Hazlehurst, GA
30.913565°N, 81.838443°W 82.1 miles away |
| Tail number | N6330K |
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| Accident date | 27 Apr 2014 |
| Aircraft type | Beech A36 |
| Additional details: | None |
The pilot approached his home airport on a long, straight-in, visual approach to land on a clear night with no wind. As the airplane touched down on the main landing gear, the pilot detected a "flash of brown" from his left and felt 3 rapid and distinct impacts before lowering the nose landing gear to the runway, which subsequently collapsed. The three occupants of the airplane egressed uninjured, and noted that the airplane had been substantially damaged. Several fatally injured deer were subsequently found on the runway. As a result of this investigation, the state department of transportation accelerated the planning and funding of a wildlife mitigation fence around the airport.
An inadvertent collision with wildlife while landing.