ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 295430
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| Date: | Saturday 2 August 2003 |
| Time: | 05:30 LT |
| Type: | Teratorn |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | UNREG |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Elbow Lake, Minnesota -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Elbow Lake, MN (KPVY) |
| ELBOW LAKE, MN (Y63) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The unregistered two-place airplane was destroyed on impact with terrain. The non-instrument rated pilot was fatally injured. The accident pilot was told by his wife prior to the flight that the weather conditions at the destination were foggy. The accident pilot replied to his wife that he could see the tops of the trees "and he was going to fly low and follow the rail road tracks." The Sheriff's report stated the pilot's brother said that "it was too foggy to be flying. The only reason he was flying was to look for [the accident pilot,] his brother."
Probable Cause: The pilot's intentional flight into known fog and failure to maintain aircraft control during cruise flight. A factor was the fog, and the low altitude flight.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CHI03LA242
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Oct-2022 08:27 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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