Date: | Saturday 20 November 1982 |
Time: | 19:00 |
Type: | Cessna TU206G |
Owner/operator: | private |
Registration: | N4606U |
MSN: | U20604998 |
Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
Engine model: | Continental TSIO-520-M |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Soda Springs, ID -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | Salt Lake City , UT (SLC) |
Destination airport: | Idaho Falls, ID (IDA) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A SEARCH FOR THE AIRCRAFT WAS BEGUN AFTER THE PILOT'S RELATIVES REPORTED IT WAS OVERDUE AND RESIDENTS NEAR THE CRASH SITE HEARD THE SOUNDS OF A LOW FLYING PLANE SUDDENLY TERMINATE. UNOFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE WEATHER INDICATED IT WAS ABOUT 200 FT OBSCURED, 1/4 MI VISIBILITY WITH HEAVY SNOW, TEMP 30 DEG, WIND 200 DEG AT 5 KTS. THE AIRCRAFT WAS FOUND IN FEBRUARY 1983 BY A CROSS-COUNTRY SKIER. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED IT HAD CRASHED AT HIGH SPEED IN A NEAR VERTICAL DIVE. THE NON-INSTRUMENT RATED PILOT HAD NOT FILED A FLIGHT PLAN AND NO RECORD OF A WEATHER BRIEFING WAS FOUND. THERE WERE NO COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE PILOT AFTER HE DEPARTED THE SALT LAKE CITY AREA. HE HAD BEEN ASSIGNED A DISCRETE TRANSPONDER CODE DURING DEPARTURE AND HAD NOT CHANGED THE CODE, THUS A RADAR TRACK WAS OBTAINED. THE RADAR SHOWED A CONTINUOUS TRACK TO THE AREA OF THE ACCIDENT, THEN WAS INTERMITTENTLY LOST AND REMAINED IN "BOBS AND WEAVES" UNTIL IT DISAPPEARED. NO PREIMPACT/MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION OR FAILURES WERE FOUND. CAUSE:
Sources:
NTSB:
https://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20020917X05135 Revision history:
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