- Date
- December 23, 1986, 18:10 local (23:10 UTC)
- Place
- Savannah, GA
- Injuries
- 3 serious, 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4137QCessna 310N
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861223068589A
- Case key
- 7275
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
During ILS rwy 9 appraoch acft disappeared from radar at one mile short of rwy. Acft impacted in level attitude with landing gear extended on a northerly heading one half mile short and about one quarter mile left of rwy centerline. Plt and CFI both stated the acft was turned right to fly centerline. Plt became spatially disoriented during approach and allowed acft to turn nearly 90 degrees off course and descend below decision height.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4137Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 310N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310N-0037
- Airframe hours
- 4,100
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Timothy J. Madden
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 30, 1985
- Departed
- TPF · Tampa, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SAV · Savannah International, runway 9, 9,003 × 150 ft, dirt
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
- 30
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,800 total · 1,200 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 110° at 14 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAV, 1 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.
Other investigations on N4137Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.