- Date
- May 21, 1989, 19:55 local (23:55 UTC)
- Place
- Immokalee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8720QCessna TU206F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890521012719A
- Case key
- 32290
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to establish the descent angle which would attain the proper touchdown point. Consequently, the airplane collided, in flight, with the airport boundary fence.
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
According to evidence found at the scene, the airplane struck the top barbed wire strand in the airport boundary fence, touched down in the grass- just inside the airport boundary - rolled aprx 50 feet hit a log, bounced up, struck a pole with the left wing, cartwheeled and crashed in to the turf about 150 feet from the initial contact with the pole. The acft burst into flames and was destroyed by post crash fire. The engine was run after the accident with an alternate fuel system and no discrepancies were noted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8720Q
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20603473
- Airframe hours
- 1,600
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-C, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Cannington, Freddie L.
- Registered owner
- Jobob Farms Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 9, 1988
- Departed
- X51 · Homestead, FL
- Airport
- IMM · Immokalee
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,060 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 300° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY, 25 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.