- Date
- September 10, 1982, 20:34 local (Sep 11, 1982, 00:34 UTC)
- Place
- Houghton, MI
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5518QMooney M20E
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820910070749A
- Case key
- 71083
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft crashed into trees while making an ILS approach to Houghton county memorial arpt, hancock, MI. The weather was IMC and an IFR flt plan had been filed. The two occupants were held in the acft by seat belts and were fatally injured in the crash and post crash fire. The flt originated at bay city, MI about 2 hrs & 15 min before the crash. Inbound to Houghton the pilot had received a weather update with visibility less than 1/4 mile. When asked if he wanted to try an approach he said "I'll take a look". And "if we don't make it we'll need some place to go". No alternate had been filed on his flt plan. No more transmissions were made and 6 minutes after the pilots last statement a local resident called Houghton fss and reported hearing an acft crash.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5518Q
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 612
- Airframe hours
- 1,428
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kyoko Simmons
- Registered owner
- Kyoko Simmons
- Departed
- Bay City, MI
- Destination
- Houghton, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CMX · Houghton County Memorial, runway 31, 6,500 × 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 90° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 151 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CMX
FAA reports on this event · 1
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