# NTSB Accident SEA00LA034
> **Cessna 182S** · 1999-12-30 · KENNEWICK, WA, USA · NONE
## Event
- **NTSB number:** SEA00LA034
- **Event ID:** 20001212X20324
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 1999-12-30
- **Location:** KENNEWICK, WA, USA
- **Coordinates:** 46.20948, -119.16072
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** NONE
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 3
- **Total aboard:** 3
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Cessna
- **Model:** 182S
- **Registration:** N374TC
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** SUBS
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

The pilot's decision to continue flight into known icing conditions, and his subsequent failure to maintain adequate airspeed on final approach, resulting in a hard landing.  Factors included:  icing conditions; the pilot's improper decision to continue to his planned destination from an ILS low approach rather than to execute the straight-in ILS approach to a full stop on a more suitable runway for his flight situation; and the pilot's failure to follow proper pilot's operating handbook procedures for an inadvertent icing encounter.

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