- Date
- March 20, 2006, 20:30 local (Mar 21, 2006, 02:30 UTC)
- Place
- Shreveport, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N662MWAero Commander AC50
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report August 29, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Baton Rouge
- FAA report
- 20060320005559A
- Case key
- 63387
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to execute a missed approach after losing visual contact with the runway, which resulted in a collision with approach lights. Factors were the dark night conditions and the fog.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
While executing a night instrument approach in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), the 2,576-hour instrument rated commercial pilot visually identified the runway end identifier lights (REIL) and elected to continue the approach visually. When the airplane was approximately 100-feet above ground level (AGL), the airplane entered ground fog and the pilot lost visual contact with the runway. The airplane continued to descend, and subsequently collided with several runway approach lights short of the landing threshold for runway 14. The pilot was informed when he was cleared for the approach that the visibility was one and one half mile.
Factual narrative
While executing a night instrument approach in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), the 2,576-hour instrument rated commercial pilot visually identified the runway end identifier lights (REIL) and elected to continue the approach visually. When the airplane was approximately 100-feet above ground level (AGL), the airplane entered ground fog and the pilot lost visual contact with the runway. The pilot continued to descend, and subsequently collided with several runway approach lights short of the landing threshold for runway 14. The pilot was informed when he was cleared for the approach that the visibility was one and one half mile.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N662MW
- Reported as
- Aero Commander AC50
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 500B-1235-106
- Airframe hours
- 17,529.1
- Engines
- Lycoming IO-540, reciprocatingLycoming IO-540, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Central Air Southwest, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Central Airline, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 1, 2006 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- KDAL · Dallas, TX
- Destination
- KSHV · Shreveport, LA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- KSHV · Shreveport Regional Airport, runway 14, 8,351 × 200 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 1, 2006
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,576 total · 1,326 in this make and model · 235 in the last 90 days · 79 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night
- Wind
- 190° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 1.5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 100 ft broken
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.72 inHg
- Observed at
- KSHV
FAA reports on this event · 1
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