19880118000859A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Hwksly DH125* · Houston, TX · January 18, 1988

Date
January 18, 1988 · 10:10 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
William P Hobby Airport
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
XAKUT
Reported as
Hwksly DH125*
Reported engine
Rolls-Royce DART*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
1
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total4,000 in this make and model

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Given low altitude alert on ILS approach. Struck wires short of runway and crashed. Glide slope dip not verified.

As the FAA filed it

GIVEN LOW ALTITUDE ALERT ON ILS APPROACH. STRUCK WIRES SHORT OF RUNWAY AND CRASHED. GLIDE SLOPE DIP NOT VERIFIED.