- Date
- September 28, 1990, 20:41 local (Sep 29, 1990, 00:41 UTC)
- Place
- Nantucket, MA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5289NCessna 182Q
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900928043239A
- Case key
- 36553
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper IFR operation in attempting an ILS approach in an airplane not equipped with an ILS glide slope receiver. The weather conditions were factors in the accident.
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 had been cleared for the ILS approach to runway 24. He terminated the first approach due to an 'autopilot problem.' He was then vectored for the second approach, and shortly after reporting the locator outer marker inbound radio communication was lost. The published crossing altitude at the marker is 1,600 feet. Ntap data revealed the airplane crossed the marker at 800 feet. The airplane was not equipped with a glide slope receiver/indicator.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5289N
- Reported as
- Cessna 182Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18267621
- Engine
- Continental O-470-U, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Barnes, James R.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- GON · Groton, CT
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ACK · Nantucket Memorial, runway 24, 6,303 × 150 ft, macadam
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
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 287 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 210° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ACK, 75 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.