- Date
- December 1, 1986, 19:24 local (Dec 2, 1986, 01:24 UTC)
- Place
- Panama City, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1FDCessna 320
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861201087049A
- Case key
- 31738
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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
While executing an ILS approach with aircraft radios that were not operating properly and using a hand held transceiver, the right engine failed due to a broken fuel pressure sensor wire, and the pilot lost control of the aircraft in IMC conditions and crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1FD
- Reported as
- Cessna 320
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 320-006
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-470-B, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charlie Fowler/Evangelistic As
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1986 · 167 hours before
- Departed
- PNS · Pensacola, FL
- Destination
- PFN · Panama City, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PFN · Panama City, runway 14, 6,314 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,006 total · 186 in this make and model · 2,900 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PFN, 6 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.