Air Tahoma Flight 185 was a scheduled cargo flight from Memphis to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport conducted by Air Tahoma as part of a contract to freight parcels for courier firm DHL.
On August 13, 2004, the flight crashed during approach to landing just one mile (1.6 km) short of the runway.
[1] The aircraft involved in this accident was a 49 year old Convair 580, manufactured in 1953, serial number 068, with 67,886 flight hours.
First Officer Michael Gelwicks was 37, was hired by Air Tahoma on 5 May 2004, with 2,488 flight hours, 145 of those were on the Convair 580.
[1] Contributing to the accident were the captain's inadequate preflight planning, his subsequent distraction during the flight, and his late initiation of the in-range checklist.