- Date
- February 12, 1986, 21:00 local (Feb 13, 1986, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Shippenville, PA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4877VCessna 303
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860212002589A
- Case key
- 6924
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.
Analysis
N4877V arrived over clarion county airport at about 2100 hours, and commenced a visual approach for landing. Marginal visual weather conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The flight was observed by another pilot waiting on the ground for the aircraft. This pilot reported that the aircraft was seen through a break in the clouds as it turned left, southwest, as if to establish a left downwind for runway 05. The aircraft was located in a wooded area southwest of the airport. An examination of the wreckage failed to indicate any malfunction or system failure. The aircraft impacted the ground in a nose low attitude and the wreckage was confined to an area indicative with a stall type accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4877V
- Reported as
- Cessna 303
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- T303-00282
- Airframe hours
- 80
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Steel City Aviation
- Registered owner
- Hsfc & Associates
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 6, 1986 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- Cleveland, OH
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CIP · Clarion County, runway 23, 3,500 × 75 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
- 33
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,504 total · 2,198 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft
- Temperature
- 16 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DUJ, 25 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.