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DCA81AA006

1981-01-20 · SPOKANE, Washington, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N390CA has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BOMBARDIER INC CL-600-2C10, built 2003), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH 99A · N390CA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
ED
Operator type
E
Airport
SPOKANE INTL
Kind of flying
CI

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
030° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
Z
Total time
23,322 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
11,680
Age
36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

APCH LCTD NR MAP.NO FREQ DSPLAY ON DME MODE SEL.

Investigator remarks

DSND BLO MDA NR FAF/DME,4.5MI FM RWY.DME FOR ILS

Cause factors

  • 64/A/26 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/11 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INSTRUMENTS-MISREAD OR FAILED TO READ Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/20 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Joint cause
  • 68/J/J2 J
    PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Joint cause
  • 76/J/BH J
    INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES DME Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3663. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3663.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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