ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324629
Date: | Friday 1 September 1995 |
Time: | 12:00 |
Type: | Shorts SC.7 Skyvan 3-200 |
Owner/operator: | North Star Air Cargo |
Registration: | N30GA |
MSN: | SH.1839 |
Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
Total airframe hrs: | 15798 hours |
Engine model: | Garrett TPE331-2-201A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 10 km S of Farewell, AK -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Farewell Airport, AK (FWL/PAFW) |
Destination airport: | Anchorage-Merrill Field, AK (MRI/PAMR) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Skyvan N30GA, flying to Anchorage in IMC conditions with a VFR flight plan, collided with the north facing slope of a mountain slope, about 200 feet below the ridgeline at an altitude of 4800 feet. Weather was bad with low ceilings (about 1800 feet overcast), mountain obscuration, rain, fog and icing in clouds and precipitation.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's continued VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions. The weather was a factor."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | ANC95LA158 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 6 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
ICAO Adrep Summary 2/96 (#82)
NTSB Id. ANC95LA158
Scramble 200(19)
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