Aviation Accident Information for New York State: Francis S Gabreski Airport - Report #164463

The following report relates to an aviation accident that occurred at Francis S Gabreski Airport in December 1990 during night hours. The aircraft make/model involved in this Training flight was a Small Aircraft, High Wing, 1 Eng, Fixed Gear with 1 crew members. The observations in this report may have been made by a pilot, co-pilot, stewardess, flight attendant, or other aviation expert.

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Report #: 164463
Data source: AVIATION SAFETY REPORTING SYSTEM
Aircraft Make/Model: Small Aircraft, High Wing, 1 Eng, Fixed Gear
Flight Conduct Rule (if any):

Narrative:

we were returning to our home base at mac arthur airport from brookhaven airport after completing a chkride. we called the ny tracon (islip arsa) requesting permission to go to mac arthur, which is in the arsa. we were given a xponder code, assigned hdg and was told to maintain our present alt. as we were handed off to the next ctlr we noticed that the voltage warning lights was on. contact could not be made with either radio with the new or the previous ctlr. all of the electrical equip was turned off and still no contact could be made. we chked all the breakers and recycled the electrical master switch repeatedly, but still no contact was made. having a hand-held transceiver on the aircraft, we used it to contact tracon while maintaining the last assigned alt and hdg. the xponder was turned on in case tracon could pick us up on radar. tracon vectored us n across the island, then s across the island, then n and then s. all this time they were trying to pick us up on radar. we left brookhaven around dusk, but by this time it was dark out and throughout the vectoring it was very difficult for either of us to read the panel. finally tracon suggested that we return to brookhaven airport. we felt we had the airport in sight, so we agreed. after requesting that they contact our home base and let them know where we were, we broke off contact. brookhaven airport was using runway 24. we headed toward the airport. when we reached the airport we found runway 24, but the lights were out on all the runways. we tried to activate the lights by clocking the mic of the hand-held, but the lights below did not go on. we contacted brookhaven unicom and requested that they turn on the runway lights. they stated that the lights were on. looking down at the runways below us we saw that the lights on 24 had gone on. we procedureeeded to land calling unicom on downwind, base and final. upon landing we noticed that the airport did not look like brookhaven and then realized that it was suffolk airport. it turns out that suffolk airport has a runway 24 and at the instant we called to turn on the lights at brookhaven they turned the lights on at suffolk.

Synopsis:

civil air patrol plts in sma overcome by darkness, loss of navigation and difficult radio com with tracon. landed wrong arpt.

Local Date:	December 1990
Local Quarter Time:	1201 To 1800
Facilty ID Nr Aircraft:	FOK
State of Facility Nr Acft:	NY
Magnetic Bearing (deg):	27
Facility Distance (nm):
Altitude AGL - LO(ft)
Altitude AGL - HI(ft)	0
Altitude MSL - LO(ft)	0
Altitude MSL - HI(ft)	0

Weather Conditions:
Ceiling:
Light Condition:	night
Runway Vis - LO(ft):
Runway Vis - HI(ft):
Visual Range - LO (sm):	12
Visual Range - HI (sm):	12

Operation Type

Carrier Operation:
GA Operation:
Other Operation: Government

Phase of Flight

Climbout:
Climbout Other:
Cruise:
Other Cruise:
Descent:
Other Descent:
Ground:
Other Ground:
Landing
Other Landing: Landing
Other Flight Phase:

Airspace Info

Class A:
Class B:
Class C:
Class D:
Class E:
Class G:
Special Use:
Temp Use:

Findings

Anomaly Descriptors

	Acft Equip Anomaly:
	ASP Anomaly:
	Alt Dev Anomaly:
	Cabin Event Anomaly:
	Conflict Anomaly:
	Excursion Anomaly:
	Ground Encounter Anomaly:
	Incursion Anomaly:				Landing Without Clearance
	In-Flight Anomaly:
	Maintenance Anomaly:
	Non-Adherence Anomaly:
	Non-Adherence Other Anomaly:
	Other Anomaly:
	Other Spatial Dev. Anomaly:

Anomaly Consequences

	Consequence Desc:
	Other Consequence Desc:
	Misc. Consequence Desc:				None

Anomaly Detected By

	Controller A:
	Controller B:
	Crew A:
	Crew B:

Anomaly Resolution

	Aircraft:
	Controller:
	Crew:
	Other Action:
	No Action:				Detected After The Fact
	Event Type:				Unique Event

Reporter Information

Findings For Reporter Sequence 1

Reporter Function

	Controller:
	Flight Attendant:
	Flight Crew:				Single Pilot
	Instructor:				Instructor
	Maintenance:
	Observer:
	Other Personell:
	Oversight:
	Reporter Activity:				Pilot Flying

Findings For Reporter Sequence 2

Reporter Function

	Controller:
	Flight Attendant:
	Flight Crew:
	Instructor:
	Maintenance:
	Observer:
	Other Personell:
	Oversight:
	Reporter Activity:				Monitoring

Findings For Reporter Sequence 3

Reporter Function

	Controller:				Approach
	Flight Attendant:
	Flight Crew:
	Instructor:
	Maintenance:
	Observer:
	Other Personell:
	Oversight:
	Reporter Activity:				Controlling

END REPORT

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	Climbout:
	Climbout Other:
	Cruise:
	Other Cruise:
	Descent:
	Other Descent:
	Ground:
	Other Ground:
	Landing
	Other Landing:				Landing
	Other Flight Phase:

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	Class E:
	Class G:
	Special Use:
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