Accident · 1989-08-21

What the record says

Event date

1989-08-21

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Fatal injury

Aircraft

BEECH C90 (N25ST)

Operating rule

Part 135

Operator

Mercy Flight, Inc. Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

MERCY FLIGHT

Probable cause

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO INITIATE A GO-AROUND AFTER EMERGING FROM A FOG BANK ON A SHORT FINAL WHICH RESULTED IN INADEQUATE AIRSPEED AND A STALL. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S POOR JUDGEMENT IN ATTEMPTING THE VFR APPROACH IN IMC CONDITIONS.

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.