- Date
- June 7, 1991, 22:15 local (Jun 8, 1991, 03:15 UTC)
- Place
- Washington, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6158QCessna 320F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910607022349A
- Case key
- 14868
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Probable cause
Exceeding the aircraft's proper descent rate by the pilot in command. Factors related to the accident were inoperative runway edge lights, proper alignment not attained, improperly planned approach, and inadequate facility maintenance.
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 made a night visual approach to an airport where the runway lights were inoperative. The local procedure for making night approaches to the airport when the lights are inoperative is to line up the airport rotating beacon with the marker light on a grain bin one half mile from the airport, start a descent, and wait for the aircraft landing lights to illuminate the runway. He was high on the first approach and executed a go around. On the second approach he was high and to the left, but had established a high rate of descent, and failed to correct for this condition prior to ground impact 20 feet left of the runway at approximately mid field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6158Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 320F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 320F-008
- Engine
- Continental TSI0-520B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dr. John C. Roberts
- Registered owner
- Dr. John C. Roberts
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 2, 2000 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- OWB · Owensboro, KY
- Airport
- DCY · Deviess County, runway 18, 4,800 × 60 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
- 46
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,500 total · 500 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EVV, 43 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.