- Date
- June 23, 1990, 15:55 local (22:55 UTC)
- Place
- Priest River, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2703UCessna 340A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900623021779A
- Case key
- 41219
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of distance and altitude and his failure to maintain an adequate airspeed during the landing 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
During an approach for landing, the pilot failed to maintain an adequate airspeed. The airplane landed short of the runway. The nose gear collapsed and the wings partially separated at the root and drug on the runway. The airplane slid down the runway and came to rest. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2703U
- Reported as
- Cessna 340A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 340A0914
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-N13, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Felts Field Aviation
- Departed
- SFF · Spokane, WA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 1S6 · Priest River, runway 1, 2,950 × 48 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
- 54
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 7,059 total · 84 in this make and model · 6,417 as pilot in command · 58 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.