Courier Services Cessna 207 accident
Cessna 207 · Accident: on ground/water collision with object during landing
From Stellar Airpark (P19) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX95LA066
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 207
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 207
- 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
- N91090
- Operator
- Courier Services
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Stellar Airpark (P19), Chandler, AZTo not recorded
- 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 · aborted
- 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
- On ground/water collision with object
- 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
- Atc personnel(dep/apch) › Communications/information/atc, inadequate
- Atc personnel(lcl/gnd/clnc) › Communications/information/atc, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
EN ROUTE, THE PILOT REPLIED THAT SHE HAD NOT RECEIVED THE ATIS INFO, & WAS GIVEN ONLY THE DESTINATION WINDS OF 210 DEG AT 11 KTS AND THE ALTIMETER SETTING. AFTER BEING VECTORED & CLEARED FOR A VISUAL APPROACH TO RIGHT DOWNWIND FOR RUNWAY 26, SHE WAS CLEARED TO LAND '. . . RUNWAY ONE ONE WIND TWO FOUR ZERO AT NINER . . . .' THE PILOT ACCEPTED THE CLEARANCE TO LAND ON RUNWAY 11. THE SOUTHEAST 2300' OF THE 5365' RUNWAY WAS CLOSED. AFTER LANDING WITH NO FLAPS, THE PILOT REALIZED SHE COULD NOT STOP THE AIRPLANE BEFORE COLLIDING WITH BARRICADES & INITIATED A GO-AROUND. THE AIRCRAFT HIT THE BARRICADES & THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR COLLIDED WITH A CONCRETE BERM, COLLAPSING THE GEAR. THE WIND WAS GUSTING TO 17 KTS. THE PILOT STATED SHE HAD CHECKED THE NOTAMS THE NIGHT BEFORE & WASN'T AWARE THE RUNWAY WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THIS INFO WAS PUBLISHED IN THE NOAA AIRPORT/FACILITY DIRECTORY; ONCE PUBLISHED, A NOTAM IS REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM. IT WAS ALSO CONTAINED IN THE ATIS. THE NOAA AFD WAS NOT REQUIRED IN THE FAA-APPROVED OPERATOR SPECIFICATIONS. THE PILOT WAS USING JEPPESEN PUBLICATIONS WHICH DID NOT CONTAIN THE RUNWAY CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION, & THE OPERATOR DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE JEPPESEN NOTAM SERVICE, NOR WERE THEY REQUIRED TO.
Probable cause
THE FAILURE OF THE RADAR AND TOWER CONTROLLERS TO ENSURE THAT THE PILOT WAS AWARE OF THE RUNWAY STATUS. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE DOWNWIND NO-FLAP LANDING AND THE SUNGLARE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX95LA066
- Event ID
- 20001206X02759
- Case number
- LAX95LA066
- 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: 913b9c81a0efd5a6d3a009a16c0f1c74d147f90e000fd9860dd4417e11eb4384; retrieved 2026-09-18T18:04:54.059Z.