19991209042939A

(-23) On December 9, 1999, Cessna citation N525KL, owned and operated by college of the ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, was on a return flight to Mr. Graham clark airport (plk), Point Lookout, MO. From lambert st. louis international airport, st. louis, MO. Due to low IFR conditions in the Point Lookout area, the pilot in command (oic) accepted vectors from springfield approach control for an ILS runway 2 approach into springfield-branson regional airport (sgf). As citation N525KL was being turned onto the base leg for the runway 2 approach, the PIC made a decision to proceed to plk and requested "direct rawbe waypoint for the GPS runway 11 approach at plk". As citation N525KL was conducting the GPS runway 11 approach, the PIC apparently did not comply with altitude restrictions and descended below the published minimum descent altitude. As a result, citation N525KL was flown into terrain approx. four (4) miles west of plk at 1512 csr, causing a post-crash fire. All occupants of the a/c were fatally injured. (.19) on December 9, 1999, at 1515 central standard time (CST), a Cessna 525, N525KL, operated by an airline transport pilot, was destroyed when it impacted a hillside 4.3 miles from the approach end of runway 11 (3,739 feet by 100 feet; wet asphalt) at m. graham clark airport, Point Lookout, Missouri. A post-crash fire ensued. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The business flight was being conducted under 14 CFR part 91. An instrument flight plan was on file. The pilot, pilot-rated passenger, and 4 passengers in the cabin section of the airplane were fatally injured. The cross-country flight originated at st. louis, Missouri, and was en route to Point Lookout, Missouri. The operations manager at clark airport said that the pilot, while on the ground at st. louis, contacted him at 1348 CST inquiring what the weather was at the airport. The operations manager told the pilot that the weather was pretty poor and gave him the most-recent observation which he took a few hours earlier. The pilot requested a current observation, but before the operations manager could give it, another pilot departing the airport in a Cessna 421,N1527G gave the pilot a pilot report (PIREP) for the field. Th e Cessna 421 pilot told the pilot that the clouds were approx. 1,200 feet mean sea level (MSL). The pilot radioed the airport manager and told him to disregard the observation; he was going to springfield, Missouri. The operations manager said that later, he was at his desk in the airport operations office when he heard the pilot on the airport's common frequency radio, "citation 525KL is rawbe inbound on the GPS 11 approach." The operations manager said he went to the door of the building to see if he could hear the airplane go missed approach. The weather was no better than it had been earlier. He listened for about 15 to 20 minutes, then went back in. He said that he thought he must have missed hearing the airplane and that the airplane probably went back to springfield. The controller at the springfield air traffic control tower (ATCT) said she vectored N525KL for the ILS approach to runway 2 at the springfield-branson regional airport. She said that N525KL changed his destination to Point Lookout and requested the GPS runway 11 approach. At 1508 CST, she cleared him for the approach and told him to switch to advisory frequency with instructions to report cancellation of IFR or his missed approach. The weather surface observation for harrison, Arkansas, 22 miles south of Point Lookout, for 1451 CST, was 200 feet broken, 900 feet overcast skies, 2 miles visibility, rain and mist, temperature and dew Point 53 degrees fahrenheit (f), winds 100 degrees magnetic at 6 knots, and altimeter 29.91 inches of mercury (hg).