- Date
- August 28, 1985, 04:56 local (08:56 UTC)
- Place
- Huntington, WV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N255CSCessna 404
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850828043809A
- Case key
- 6865
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Several men who were in a building at the airport reported that they could hear the aircraft on the approach and then a loud noise. They could not see the runway or the aircraft due to the fog. They got in the fire and rescue vehicles and had a hard time finding the plane. The pilot was uninjured but the aircraft had a broken right main landing gear and other damage that lead the operators maintenance director tostate that the aircraft had a hard landing. The pilot statedthat he could see the runway from 15 miles out.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N255CS
- Reported as
- Cessna 404
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 404019
- Airframe hours
- 7,183
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO520M, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Acme Flight Service,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Gregory D. Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- IND · Indianapolis, IN
- Destination
- HTS
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HTS · Tri-State, runway 12, 6,509 × 150 ft, asphalt
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,146 total · 810 in this make and model · 1,816 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 130° at 4 knots
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HTS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.