Cessna 340A accident near Center Point, TX
On February 28, 1993, a Cessna 340A (airplane) was involved in an accident near Center Point, TX. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- February 28, 1993
- Place
- Center Point, TX
- Aircraft
- Cessna 340A · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 29.930°N, 99.030°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001211X11820
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On February 27, 1993, at approximately 1840 central standard time, a Cessna 340A airplane, N88KH, was destroyed upon impact with terrain following a loss of control while on approach to the Kerrville Municipal Airport, near Center Point, Texas. The private pilot and his wife were fatally injured. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed for the personal cross country flight. An IFR flight plan was filed for the flight from the West Houston Lakeside Airport (IWS) to the Kerrville Municipal Airport (ERV). After holding for approximately 26 minutes at the Shein Outer Marker at 5,000 feet, Houston Center cleared the airplane for the approach to the Kerrville Airport at 1835 CST. Another airplane executing a practice instrument approach ahead of N88KH, reported the base of the overcast at two thousand five hundred feet MSL (900 feet AGL). Witnesses at the site reported a light mist and low light conditions due to fog and dusk. Official sunset was reported at 1839. Communications between the airplane and the Unicom was never established while the pilot circled the airport for landing. Witnesses observed the airplane flying at low altitude, on a close left downwind for runway 30. Witnesses added that on the turn from base to final, a very steep angle of bank was established as the engine power was heard being increased. The airplane was observed impacting the ground inverted in a nose low attitude. A post impact fire consumed the airplane. PERSONNEL INFORMATION According to local residents of the area, the pilot was familiar with the approaches to the airpo
Probable cause
INADVERTENT STALL. FACTORS WERE THE WEATHER AND THE LIGHT CONDITIONS
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
