# NTSB DFW06CA089: Aero Commander AC50, N662MW, Shreveport, LA, March 21, 2006

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Data collection · Final report
- Date: March 20, 2006, 20:30 local (Mar 21, 2006, 02:30 UTC)
- Place: Shreveport, LA
- Coordinates: 32.4411111111111, -93.8219444444444
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.4411&lon=-93.8219&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- Status: Completed, report August 29, 2006
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- Parties: Baton Rouge
- NTSB case key (mKey): 63387
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DFW06CA089
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/63387/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DFW06CA089

## 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

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- In flight encounter with weather, approach
  - weather condition - fog (contributing factor)
  - vfr flight into imc - continued, pilot in command (cause)
  - missed approach - not performed, pilot in command (cause)
  - light condition - night (contributing factor)
- In flight collision with object, landing - flare/touchdown
  - object - approach light/navaid

## 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 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Aero Commander AC50
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 500B-1235-106
- Airframe hours: 17529.1
- Engines: Lycoming IO-540 reciprocating; Lycoming 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.

- Pilot; age 41; injuries: none; 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)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20060320005559A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060320005559A), Mar 20, 2006: Gulstm 500B, Shreveport, LA, Substantial damage. (-23) Pilot was flying an ILS approach to runway 14 at Shreveport Regional (night, IMC) and descended below the glidepath in the final stages of the approach.…

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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