Grand Strand Aviation Cessna 402B accident
Cessna 402B · Accident: overrun during landing
From Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) to Wilkes County Airport (UKF)
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL95LA028
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Cessna 402B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 402
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N7628R
- Operator
- Grand Strand Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT), Charlotte, NCTo Wilkes County Airport (UKF), NO. WILKESBORO, NC
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Overrun
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Proper touchdown point, not attained
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Hickory, NC, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE COMMERCIAL PILOT HAD JUST EXECUTED A MISSED APPROACH AT HIS DESTINATION AIRPORT, AND REQUESTED AN ILS APPROACH TO A NEARBY AIRPORT. DURING THE ILS, HE OBSERVED OFF FLAGS ON THE GLIDE SLOPE, AND TRANSITIONED TO A LOCALIZER APPROACH. HE BROKE OUT OF THE WEATHER, AND ATTEMPTED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 24. HE WAS UNABLE TO STOP THE AIRCRAFT IN THE REMAINING RUNWAY DISTANCE. THE AIRCRAFT OVERRAN THE RUNWAY, COLLIDED WITH A FENCE, AND CAME TO REST AGAINST AN EMBANKMENT. WITNESSES OBSERVED THE AIRCRAFT DIVING TOWARD THE RUNWAY PRIOR TO TOUCHDOWN, AND A FLIGHT SERVICE STATION SUPERVISOR ESTIMATED THAT THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN AT THE 1,800 FOOT REMAINING POINT ON THE 6,400 FOOT LONG RUNWAY.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN A PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT DURING THE TRANSITION TO LANDING, WHICH RESULTED IN A LONG LANDING AND OVERRUN. FACTORS WERE THE LOW CEILINGS AND FOG WHICH PREVAILED AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL95LA028
- Event ID
- 20001206X02684
- Case number
- ATL95LA028
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: be0381d046bac246e836675792597d7c49196a6782fa1d9e3122a430ca7f49b7; retrieved 2026-09-18T18:05:21.974Z.