ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327734
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| Date: | Monday 3 January 1983 |
| Time: | 09:05 |
| Type: |  Canadair CL-600-1A11 Challenger 600 |
| Owner/operator: | A.E. Stanley Manufacturing Co. |
| Registration: | N805C |
| MSN: | 1037 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1982 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 203 hours |
| Cycles: | 86 flights |
| Engine model: | Lycoming ALF502L-2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 4 km N of Hailey-Sun Valley Airport, ID (SUN) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Decatur Airport, IL (DEC/KDEC) |
| Hailey-Sun Valley Airport, ID (SUN/KSUN) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Impacted mountain ridge at 6250 feet during a VFR attempt to land; ridge obscured by broken clouds. Field elevation 5315 feet; airport located in a mountain valley, just over a mile wide
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flightcrew's failure to adhere to the recommended visual arrival procedures for the Sun Valley Airport and its failure to execute timely terrain avoidance actions The reasons for the flightcrew's failures could not be established conclusively. Contributing to the accident were meteorological conditions and the obscuration of terrain features and landmarks by snow that made navigation by visual references and terrain avoidance difficult."
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