High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USAir Flight 1016 was a regularly scheduled flight between Columbia, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina. On Saturday, July 2, 1994, the plane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 registered N954VJ departed Columbia Metropolitan Airport at 18:15 EST for the 35 minute flight to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. On board, there were 52 passengers (including two infants), 3 flight attendants,and two pilots. The flight was uneventful until the approach to Charlotte, where several heavy thunderstorms were in the vicinity of the airport. The flight was cleared by the tower to land on runway 18R. The plane, under control by the first officer, was approaching the runway in heavy rain conditions. The tower controller issued a windshear warning to all aircraft, but it was on a different radio frequency than flight 1016.

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