Piedmont Airlines Flight 22

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Piedmont Airlines Flight 22

The crash site of Piedmont Airlines Flight 22
Accident
Date	July 19, 1967 (1967-07-19)
Summary	Mid-air collision[1]
Site	Hendersonville, North Carolina
Total fatalities	82
Total survivors	0
First aircraft
N68650, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen in 1966
Type	Boeing 727-22
Name	Manhattan Pacemaker
Operator	Piedmont Airlines
ICAO flight No.	PAI22
Call sign	PIEDMONT 22
Registration	N68650
Flight origin	Asheville Regional Airport Asheville, North Carolina
Destination	Roanoke Regional Airport Roanoke, Virginia
Occupants	79
Passengers	74
Crew	5
Fatalities	79
Survivors	0
Second aircraft
A Cessna 310 similar to the accident aircraft
Type	Cessna 310
Operator	Lanseair Inc.
Call sign	21 SIERRA
Registration	N3121S
Occupants	3
Passengers	2
Crew	1
Fatalities	3
Survivors	0

Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 was a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 that collided with a twin-engine Cessna 310 on July 19, 1967, over Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States.^[2] Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed,^[2] including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The aircraft were both operating under instrument flight rules and were in radio contact with the Asheville control tower, though on different frequencies. The accident investigation was the first of a major scale conducted by the newly created National Transportation Safety Board. A review of the investigation conducted 39 years after the accident upheld the original findings that had placed primary responsibility on the Cessna pilot.^[2]