ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 35646
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Date: | Tuesday 23 June 1998 |
Time: | 01:00 LT |
Type: | Cessna 172L |
Owner/operator: | Mohammad R. Darvishian |
Registration: | N3853Q |
MSN: | 17259953 |
Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
Total airframe hrs: | 1277 hours |
Engine model: | Lycoming O-320-E2D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Macclenny, FL -
United States of America
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Statesboro, GA (KTBR) |
Destination airport: | Pompano Beach, FL |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The student pilot conducted a VFR cross country flight. Neither a flight plan was filed nor was a weather briefing obtained. Visibility of 2 miles in smoke and haze was reported at 1855 and 1955 hours at reporting station 13 miles to the ast of the crash site. The student pilot encountered instrument flight conditions. The airplane collided with tress and terrain fatally injuring the pilot and one passenger. The student pilot had recorded a total of 2 hours of simulated instrument flight time.
Probable Cause: The student pilot's attempted VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions, resulting in a subsequent in-flight collision with trees and terrain. Contributing factors were, haze/smoke, the student pilot's failure to obtain a preflight weather briefing, the student pilot's lack of total experience in type operation, and trees.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | MIA99FA050 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year and 5 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB MIA99FA050
Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Oct-2008 10:30 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Dec-2016 19:22 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
07-Apr-2024 10:22 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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