Cessna 208B accident near Reno, NV
On March 22, 1995, a Cessna 208B (airplane) was involved in an accident near Reno, NV. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- March 22, 1995
- Place
- Reno, NV
- Aircraft
- Cessna 208B · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 39.480°N, 119.741°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001207X03133
Official records · LAX95FA141
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- Transcript of Radio Communications: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On March 22, 1995, at 0812 hours Pacific standard time, a Cessna 208B, N9417B, operated by Union Flights on a FAR Part 135 air taxi cargo flight for Airborne Express, collided with a mountain on final approach to the Reno Cannon International Airport, Reno, Nevada. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed, and an IFR flight plan was filed. The airplane was destroyed, and the airline transport certificated pilot was fatally injured. The flight originated at 0734 from Sacramento, California, as flight number 9840. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), all communications and services with flight 9840 were routine upon departure from Sacramento. At 0803:28, as flight 9840 approached Reno, the pilot made the following transmission to the radar controller: "ah Reno Approach Union Flight ninety eight forty is with you. I have Romeo and request ah localizer DME one for runway one six." The controller responded by providing a radar approach vector to the pilot. Thereafter, in reply to a series of air traffic control instructions, the pilot made a series of statements which were subsequently corrected by the radar controller. For example, at 0805:28 the controller instructed the pilot to "descend and maintain niner thousand five hundred." The pilot responded that he was "out of nine thousand five hundred." The controller corrected the pilot. At 0808:28, the controller cleared the pilot to "descend and maintain eight thousand two hundred." The pilot acknowledged the instruction with "down to seven thousand." The controller corrected the pilot.
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to comply with published instrument approach procedures by a premature descent below the minimum altitude specified for the approach.
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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.
