- Date
- October 30, 1992, 21:45 local (Oct 31, 1992, 03:45 UTC)
- Place
- Rives, TN
- Injuries
- 4 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N101KHBeech 58
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921030044429A
- Case key
- 8700
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to follow instrument procedures while conducting an instrument approach which resulted in the collision with trees; the pilot descended below the minimum descent altitude.
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
The pilot received a weather briefing and filed an instrument flight plan to the destination airport without listing an alternate airport. Upon arriving at his planned destination, he executed two instrument approaches and was unable to establish visual contact with the ground. He requested a third approach from air traffic control and collided with trees about three miles short of the airport while on final approach. Examination of the airplane failed to disclose a mechanical malfunction or a component failure. According to the published approach procedure the minimum descent altitude is 800 feet MSL; the pilot descended below the published minimums. The pilot did not report a problem with the airplane or the onboard flight instruments.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N101KH
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-289
- Airframe hours
- 7,756
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kilo Hotel Inc.
- Registered owner
- Kilo Hotel Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 24, 1992 · 150 hours before
- Departed
- ATL · Atlanta, GA
- Destination
- UCY · Union City, TN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- UCY · Everett-Stewart, runway 1, 5,000 × 100 ft
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,609 total · 38 in this make and model · 1,550 as pilot in command · 227 in the last 90 days · 84 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- UCY, 3 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.