- Date
- November 20, 1988, 18:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Oxford, CT
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 3 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N468CMCessna 340
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881120051409A
- Case key
- 36337
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Probable cause
Collision with trees and terrain due to the pilot exceeding approach minimum altitude during an ILS approach.
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 witnesses, the wx was changing from minute to minute as the acft was arriving. Witnesses rprtd the wind was blowing from east to northeast at 10 to 15 KTS, rain fall was varying from strong to periods of light rain, and the ceiling (cloud level) was variable. The plt began an ILS rwy 36 apch; however, before reaching the arpt, the acft collided with trees & crashed about 2 mi short of the rwy. The plt was seriously injured & could not remember the acdnt, but did recalled receiving a wind shear alert. The plt rprtd an intermittent problem with the autopilot heading mode; however, no other preimpact malfunction or failure of the acft was evident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N468CM
- Reported as
- Cessna 340
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340A1017
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Buck Hilkert, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ARB · Ann Arbor, MI
- Destination
- OXC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- OXC · Oxford Waterbury, runway 36, 5,000 × 100 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
- 47
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22,092 total · 25 in this make and model · 21,700 as pilot in command · 312 in the last 90 days · 89 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- Variable at 15 knots
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BDR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.