- Date
- July 3, 1986, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Conway, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6009NStevens Akro
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860703030539A
- Case key
- 34206
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 PIC stated he allowed the acft to develop a high sink rate on final approach to the rwy, and was late in applying pwr to arrest the descent. Subsequently the acft impacted the terrain and sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6009N
- Reported as
- Stevens Akro
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 002B
- Airframe hours
- 498
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Nader Fahm
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 6, 1986 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- M03 · Conway, AR
- Airport
- M03 · Dennis F. Cantrell Field, runway 7, 3,000 × 50 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 846 total · 47 in this make and model · 737 as pilot in command · 61 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 23 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.