ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 45525
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| Date: | Monday 17 June 2002 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 182A Skylane |
| Owner/operator: | Robert Loo |
| Registration: | N5034D |
| MSN: | 51134 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Engine model: | Continental O-470-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Foster City, MI -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Survey |
| Departure airport: | Ironwood-Gogebic County Airport, MI (IWD/KIWD) |
| Unknown, | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On June 17, 2002, a Cessna 182A, N5034D, was reported missing. The airplane was found destroyed in a wooded area near Foster City, Michigan, after a four day search by search and rescue personnel. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed on the day that the airplane was reported missing. The 14 CFR Part 91 wildlife survey flight was not operating on a flight plan. The pilot was fatally injured. The flight departed from the Gogebic-Ironwood County Airport, Ironwood (IWD), Michigan, about 1415 central daylight time.
The airplane was reported missing and later found destroyed in a wooded area by search and rescue personnel. The wreckage path was consistent with a high-speed descent into terrain. Examination of the wreckage revealed no anomalies. The pilot had multiple serious medical conditions, several of which are specified as disqualifying for all classes of medical certificate in Federal Aviation Regulations including a thinned bulging section of heart wall, congestive heart failure, cardiac chest pain, coronary heart disease requiring angioplasty and bypass surgery complicated by atrial fibrillation and diabetes requiring insulin and oral hypoglycemic mediation. He also had significant disease of his heart valves. The pilot and his personal physician (also his Aviation Medical Examiner for many years) had not informed the Federal Aviation Administration regarding the pilot's conditions (known to the pilot and the Aviation Medical Examiner at the time of application), on seven applications for Airman Medical Certificates.
Probable Cause: The incapacitation of the pilot. A contributing factor was the pilot and medical examiner providing false information on the pilot's medical applications.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20020627X00987&key=1
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Photo: NTSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Oct-2008 00:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:24 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 09-Dec-2017 16:47 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Dec-2023 19:43 | Captain Adam | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative, Accident report, Photo] |
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