- Date
- April 11, 1990, 10:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- North Bend, OR
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N71779Cessna 182M
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900411008439A
- Case key
- 41102
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Probable cause
The pilot did not follow the published IFR procedure.
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
At the end of a cross country flight, the pilot was cleared to the ILS 4 approach. The pilot initiated a missed approach during the first attempt and was instructed to hold at the faf. The pilot was then cleared for the ILS approach for the second time. The pilot then turned toward the airport without completing the published procedure turn and proceded inbound to the runway at an altitude 3,000 feet above the minimum published altitude. The radar returns indicate that the flight was established on the localizer with radar contact lost when the airplane descended below 3,100 feet and was directly over the runway. The airplane collided into hilly terrain aproximately 2 miles north east of the runway on a heading of 40 degrees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71779
- Reported as
- Cessna 182M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259753
- Airframe hours
- 3,747
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Delchini, Mario J
- Registered owner
- Delchini, Mario J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 2, 1990 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- 069 · Petaluma, CA
- Destination
- OTH · North Bend, OR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- OTH · North Bend, runway 4, 5,330 × 150 ft, dirt
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
- 53
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,056 total · 795 in this make and model · 811 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 300 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OTH, 2 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.