- Date
- March 31, 1987, 11:11 local (18:11 UTC)
- Place
- Grand Canyon, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9026BCessna T206F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870331007939A
- Case key
- 25555
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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 plt said that on short final the acft began to drift off the left side of the rwy and control inputs to correct the drift had no effect. The plt added pwr to initiate a go around and he said that the 'airspeed suddenly dropped to 40 and we were in a stall condition' then the acft seemed to 'mush with no control until (it) contacted the ground.' The ATCT controllers said the acft was about 1,500 ft down the rwy when it was seen to initiate a go-around and pitch nose up steeply then descend rapidly to the ground off the left side of the rwy. An FAA insp was flying an acft in the pattern and noted that a slight shear existed but only produced a minor sink rate. The plt's flt time consisted of 2,500 hrs in balloons with about 180 in airplanes. No airplane flt time was flown in the previous 4 yrs prior to March of 1987 when he purchased the acft and flew it approx 6 hrs bfr the accd.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9026B
- Reported as
- Cessna T206F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20601704
- Airframe hours
- 5,178
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-C3B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Balloons West
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 9, 1987 · 22 hours before
- Departed
- Hait, UT
- Destination
- GCN · Grand Canyon, AZ
- Airport
- GCN · Grand Canyon, runway 3, 8,999 × 150 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
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,711 total · 25 in this make and model · 2,609 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GCN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.