ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 357921
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| Date: | Saturday 16 December 1995 |
| Time: | 14:21 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna U206G |
| Owner/operator: | Jalal Mahdavian |
| Registration: | N6250X |
| MSN: | U20605844 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Engine model: | CONTINENTAL IO-520-F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bangor, ME -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Millbrook, NY (44N) |
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| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot stated that during the IFR flight, '...Around Concord, NH, I received weather conditions in Bangor with possible icing below 10,000 feet and I did not think of it being significant....Even though I had some ice on the leading edges and my windshield, and my speed was down significantly, I was sure that when I got to lower altitudes, I would lose the ice.... The icing conditions persisted....[During the landing] with poor forward visibility, I misjudged my height above ground looking through the side window, instead of flying the plane to the ground as it is recommended...I applied my first notch of flaps (10 degrees). The plane stalled immediately and landed on the nose gear, came to stop after a bounce.' The Pilot Operating Handbook stated, 'Flight into icing conditions is prohibited....The best procedure, of course, is to turn back or change altitude to escape icing conditions.'
Probable Cause: the pilot's improper inflight planning/decision, and his failure to properly plan his approach for landing, so that the airplane would not stall or touchdown hard. Factors relating to the accident were: the adverse weather (icing) condition, the accumulation of airframe ice, and the pilot's reduced visibility due to the ice covered windshield.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB NYC96LA041
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 14-Mar-2024 08:02 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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