ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 292672
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| Date: | Wednesday 25 January 2006 |
| Time: | 13:35 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172C |
| Owner/operator: | Fly Aviation |
| Registration: | N1407Y |
| MSN: | 17249107 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7627 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental O-300-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Pagosa Springs, Colorado -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Las Vegas Airport, NM (LVS/KLVS) |
| Pagosa Springs, CO (2V1) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Prior to departure, the pilot discussed the weather with a friend who was 65 miles south of the pilot's intended destination. He told the pilot that the weather was clear to the north. The pilot took off and followed a highway. Poor weather conditions prevented him from landing at his original destination, so he turned around and landed at a privately-owned airport that had no service facilities. Shortly thereafter, the pilot took off again and flew north towards his destination. A nearby New Mexico State trooper on patrol observed a single-engine, high-wing airplane, white in color, pass overhead "not more than 20 feet off the ground." As the pilot got closer to his destination, the "weather got bad." He didn't have enough fuel to divert, so he elected to "fly to area of VFR minimums." Then, the "weather in front of us was below class G minimums," so the pilot decided to make a precautionary landing on a snow-covered road. The road came to a "T" and the airplane slid off the end. The left wing and propeller struck the ground and the right wing struck a tree. The right wing had leading edge compression damage outboard of the root, and the left wing leading edge was crushed near the wing tip fairing. Both propeller blades were bent. The pilot said he "should have picked a spot to do a precautionary landing sooner before the weather got bad. Second, I should have called flight service to get a weather briefing, not a friend."
Probable Cause: the pilot initiating flight into known adverse weather, and his delay in not taking remedial action sooner by not making a precautionary landing. Contributing factors include the pilot's failure to obtain preflight and in-flight weather briefings, his continuing VFR flight into IMC, snow-covered terrain, and trees.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB DEN06LA036
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 February 1990 | N1407Y | Private | 0 | Prue, OK | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 09-Oct-2022 07:36 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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