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| Title: | Crashed short, National Airlines, Inc., B-727-235, N47MNA, Escambia Bay, Pensacola, Florida, May 8, 1978 |
| Micro summary: | This Boeing 727 crashed short while executing a surveillance radar approach. |
| Event Time: | 1978-05-08 at 2120 EDT |
| File Name: | 1978-05-08-US.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) |
| Publishing Country: | USA |
| Report number: | NTSB-AAR-1978-13 |
| Pages: | 49 |
| Site of event: | 3 nmi from runway 25 |
| Latitude/Longitude: | N30°29'8" W87°7'3" |
| Departure: | Mobile Regional Airport, Mobile, Alabama, USA |
| Destination: | Pensacola Regional Airport, Pensacola, Florida, USA |
| Airplane Type(s): | Boeing 727-235 |
| Flight Phase: | Approach |
| Registration(s): | N4744NA |
| Operator(s): | National Airlines |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 58 |
| Fatalities: | 3 |
| Serious Injuries: | 11 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 44 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | About 2120 CDT. Hay 8, 1978. National Airlines Flight 193, a Boeing 727-235, crashed into kscknbia Bay while executing a surveillance radar approach to runway 25 at Pensacola Regional Airport. The aircraft crashed about 3 mi from the east end of runway 25 and came to rest in about 12 feet of water. There were 52 passengers and a crew of 6 on board; 3 passengers were drowned. The reported surface weather at Pensacola was, measured ceiling--400 ft overcast; surface visibility--6 m i in fog and haze; surface wind--190° at 7 kn. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flightcrew's unprofessionally conducted nonprecision instrument approach. in that the captain and the crew failed to monitor the descent rate and altitude, and the first officer failed to provide the captain with required altitude and approach performance callouts. The crew failed to check and utilize all instruments available for altitude awareness, turned off the ground proximity warning system, and failed to configure the aircraft properly and in a timely manner for the approach. Contributing to the accident was the radar controller's failure to provide advance notice of the start-descent point which accelerated the pace of the crew's cockpit activities after the passage of the final approach fix. |
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