- Date
- January 7, 1990, 15:17 local (23:17 UTC)
- Place
- Napa, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1283SCessna 182P
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900107000089A
- Case key
- 26607
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to properly execute the published approach and missed approach which resulted in a collision with mountainious terrain.
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 aircraft collided with mountainous terrain while executing an instrument missed approach. The recorded radar data showed that the acft was about 4 miles past the missed approach point when the turn was initiated. The VOR rwy 6 approach has a 620 ft mda and the missed approach point is defined as 3.8 DME on the scaggs island VOR 050 radial. The radar data showed the acft crossed over the airport descending through 1,800 ft MSL. The lowest alt achieved by the acft was 900 ft MSL, which occurred just before the acft initiated the missed approach turn. The DME unit in the aircraft can function in both an internal freq mode and a remote mode. In the remote mode the DME provides info from the nav radios. In the internal mode, the unit gives info based on the freq set in the units internal memory. Exam of the DME revealed that the unit was in the internal mode and selected to the concord VOR, not the scaggs island VOR.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1283S
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18264851
- Airframe hours
- 1,913
- Engine
- Continental O-470S, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Shieman, David F.
- Registered owner
- Matsco, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 20, 1989 · 75 hours before
- Departed
- CCR · Concord, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- APC · Napa Co., runway 6, 5,007 × 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,091 total · 683 in this make and model · 855 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APC, 3 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.