- Date
- June 26, 1992, 13:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dillingham, AK
- Injuries
- 13 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N620PAFairchild SA227-ACN75941Cessna 207A
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA reports
- 19920626057001I19920626057002I
- Case key
- 5659
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain a visual lookout. Factors were the drizzle and fog and the impossibility of updating the recorded weather information by ATC personnel.
The visual lookout that was not maintained by the pilot of the other airplane. Factors were the drizzle and fog and the impossibility of updating the recorded weather information by ATC personnel.
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.
Analysis
Penair flight 4266 was cleared for a localizer DME approach to runway 19. The airplane broke out of the clouds at 800 feet MSL at 4.8 DME from the airport. The crew immediately saw an airplane directly in front, and after evasive action the airplanes passed within 100 feet of each other. The special weather observation, taken one minute prior to the near mid air but not yet transmitted, showed the control zone below visual meteorological conditions. However, the previous hourly observation, and the most current transmitted observation, showed that the control zone was under visual meteorological conditions.
Penair flight 4266 was cleared for a localizer DME approach to runway 19. The airplane broke out of the clouds at 800 feet MSL at 4.8 DME from the airport. The crew immediately saw an airplane directly in front, and after evasive action the airplanes passed within 100 feet of each other. The special weather observation, taken one minute prior to the near mid air but not yet transmitted, showed the control zone below visual meteorological conditions. However, the previous hourly observation, and the most current transmitted observation, showed that the control zone was under visual meteorological conditions.
Aircraft · 2
- Registration
- N620PA
- Reported as
- Fairchild SA227-AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AC 533
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331-10, 1,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Peninsula Airways, Inc., doing business as Penair
- Registered owner
- Peninsula Airways, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 1900
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DLG · Dillingham, runway 19, 6,404 × 150 ft, macadam
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
- Registration
- N75941
- Reported as
- Cessna 207A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700656
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Markair Express
- Registered owner
- Markair Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 1900
- Destination
- DLG
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- DLG · Dillingham, runway 19, 6,404 × 150 ft, macadam
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot, aircraft N620PA
- Age
- 42
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 200 in the last 90 days
- Role
- Pilot, aircraft N75941
- Age
- 25
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DLG, 4 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 2
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N620PA · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.