# Incident 19990115009039I: Cessna 421, Redding, CA, January 15, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 15, 1999, 23:30 local time
- Place: Redding, CA
- Airport: Redding Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Final Approach-IFR
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: AXMA
- Location: 40.5090° N, 122.2934° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at REDDING RGNL (RDD), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.5090&lon=-122.2934&mi=10
- Aircraft: N41CU, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N41CU) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 421C (registry code 2076016, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-421c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 421
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,000 total, 800 in this make and model, 100 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990115009039I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-5)I SPOKE WITH THE PILOT AND HE STATED THAT WHILE FLYING THE ILS INTO RDD, HE HAD BOTH NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPEMNT TUNED TO THE LOCOLIZER FREQUENCY. THE WEATHER WAS DOWN TO MINMUMS, APPROXIMATLEY 200 FEET OVERCAST AND 1/2 MILE VISIBILITY. DURING THE APPROACH, HE DID NOT NOTICED ANYTHING UNUSUAL AND THE GLIDE SLOPE AND LOCOLIZER WERE CLOSE TO BEING CENTERED.  WHEN HE ARRIVED AT DECISION HEIGHT, HE DID NOT SEE THE RUNWAY AND HE INITIATED A GO AROUND.  HE THEN HEARD A LOUD NOISE.  HE RETURNED AND FLEW THE ILS A SECOND TIME  AND LANDED NORMALLY.  AN INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT REVEALED THAT HE HIT A TREE LOCATED S/W OF THE RUNWAY.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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