- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: March 13, 1986
Time: 2215
Location: Alpena, Michigan
Operator: Simmons Airlines
Flight #: 1746
Route: Detroit, MI - Alpena, MI
AC Type: Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante
Registration: N1356P
cn / ln: 110370
Aboard: 9   (passengers:7  crew:2)
Fatalities: 3   (passengers:2  crew:1)
Ground: 0
Summary: After a missed approach due to bad weather, the plane was cleared for an ILS approach but crashed in a wooded area, short of the runway. The flight crew's continued descent of the airplane below the glideslope and through the published decision height without obtaining visual reference of the runway for undetermined reasons.
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