- Date
- April 7, 2024, 10:25 local (14:25 UTC)
- Place
- Ellington, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N90JFCessna 208
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area undershoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240407005349A
- Case key
- 194044
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper glidepath to the runway, which resulted in a runway undershoot and collision with terrain.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The airplane was returning to the airport after releasing five skydivers. During short final approach to the 1,800-ft-long runway, in a gusty headwind, the airplane touched down just prior to the runway and the landing gear struck an embankment. The nosegear separated and the airplane skid onto and off the right side of the runway. It subsequently came to rest upright in a grass area off the right side of the runway. Examination of the wreckage revealed substantial damage to the lower and right fuselage. The examination did not reveal any preimpact mechanical malfunctions of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation, nor did the pilot report any.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N90JF
- Reported as
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20800005
- Built
- 1985
- Engine
- P&W Canada PT6A-114A, 675 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Skydiving · Part 91
- Operator
- Connecticut Parchutists
- Registered owner
- Isr Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- 7B9 · Ellington Airport, runway 1, 1,800 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 13, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 865 total · 204 in this make and model · 632 as pilot in command · 210 in the last 90 days · 86 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 13 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- BDL, 10 nm away
- METAR
- KBDL 071451Z 02013G20KT 10SM BKN039 OVC045 08/M03 A3005
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 21, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N90JF · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.