- Date
- September 13, 2019, 12:45 local (18:45 UTC)
- Place
- Caldwell, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4746FCessna P206
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 17, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190913013129A
- Case key
- 100259
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper approach, which resulted in a long landing, a runway overrun, and collision with a drainage culvert.
Findings · 3
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 pilot reported that, during landing, the airplane touched down about midfield on the 1,900-ft-long private, dirt airstrip. The airplane overran the end of the runway and impacted a drainage culvert. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during landing, the airplane touched down about mid-field on the 1,900ft private dirt airstrip. The airplane overran the end of the runway and collided with a drainage culvert. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. After multiple attempts to reach the pilot by email and phone, the NTSB IIC did not receive an NTSB Form 6120.1 from the pilot. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4746F
- Reported as
- Cessna P206 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P206-0346
- Built
- 1966
- Engine
- Continental IO 520 SERIES, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jil Llc
- Registered owner
- Jil Llc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CXP · Carson City, NV
- Destination
- Caldwell, ID
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 625 total · 70 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- KEUL, 11 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 30, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 241 KB 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 N4746F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.