- Date
- January 28, 1987, 05:15 local (09:15 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7393UCessna 207
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 21, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19870128001269A
- Case key
- 4766
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Undershoot
Weather condition - fogCause
Ifr procedure - improperCause
Weather condition - low ceilingCause
Procedures/directives - not followedCause
Overconfidence in personal abilityFactor
Light condition - dark nightFactor
Planned approach - not followedCause
Decision height - disregardedCause
Analysis
The aircraft crashed one mile short of the runway. The accident occurred during an ILS approach in instrument meteorological conditions. During a post accident interview with the pilot he stated that he did not recognize and react in a timely manner to the gross deviation of the decision height. He continued down until striking the ground short of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7393U
- Reported as
- Cessna 207
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700436
- Airframe hours
- 10,351
- Engine
- Continental IO 520 F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- South Central Air, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · January 9, 1987 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- ENA · Kenai, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage Int'L, runway 6R, 10,897 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,842 total · 557 in this make and model · 1,670 as pilot in command · 225 in the last 90 days · 120 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 340° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 14 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC, 2 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.