ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 356438
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| Date: | Tuesday 3 December 1996 |
| Time: | 15:40 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 177 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N30255 |
| MSN: | 17701153 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2050 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320-E2D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Regan, ND -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Harvey, ND (ND17) |
| Bismarck, ND (KBIS) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot obtained a weather forecast in the morning for a flight initiated in the afternoon. While en route he encountered low clouds short of his destination. He called the airport of intended landing and found that the existing weather was instrument meteorological conditions. He descended through a hole in the clouds in an attempt to locate visual instrument conditions, was unable to do so, and made an emergency landing on unsuitable terrain.
Probable Cause: the pilot's intentional flight into adverse weather. Factors were clouds, the pilot's inadequate in-flight planning/decision making, his poor evaluation of the weather, and the encounter with unsuitable terrain for landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CHI97LA036
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 December 1997 | N30255 | Charles D. Coffman | 1 | Fort Leonardwood, MO | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 13-Mar-2024 07:15 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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