- Date
- March 15, 1986, 05:50 local (10:50 UTC)
- Place
- Houlton, ME
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N287BRockwell 680FL
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860315007929A
- Case key
- 30308
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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 pilot-in-command landed on runway 5 which had approximately 1 inch of fresh snow. He reported that he encountered whiteout conditions during the landing & lost reference to the runway centerline. The aircraft touched down on the left side of the runway, angled off the landing area in a straight line & collided with a snowbank. At the time of the acdnt, there was light freezing drizzle, ice pellets & fog. The local fss was closed & there was no current wx info available to the plt for the destn arpt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N287B
- Reported as
- Rockwell 680FL
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1372-45
- Airframe hours
- 12,495
- Engine
- Lycoming IGSO-540-B1A, 380 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Air Parcel Express
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · December 12, 1985
- Departed
- BGR · Bangor, ME
- Destination
- HOU
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HULL · Houlton Int'L, runway 5, 5,000 × 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 1,982 total · 300 in this make and model · 1,834 as pilot in command · 98 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 300° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HULL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.