ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 47004
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| Date: | Wednesday 11 June 1997 |
| Time: | 01:35 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft 58 Baron |
| Owner/operator: | United Aviation |
| Registration: | ZK-KVL |
| MSN: | TH-492 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Renata Ridge, Tararua Range -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Palmerston North |
| Christchurch | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
At about 0130 hours the aircraft, on a night freight flight, disappeared from the ATC radar-monitoring screen. The wreckage was subsequently located in the Tararua Ranges. The aircraft had struck a wooded slope at high speed in a steep spiral dive and fragmented. The pilot, Timothy Thompson, was killed on impact.
The aircraft probably encountered severe inflight icing at 10,000 feet in the area of a convective cell, resulting in a loss of control.
Ingress of carbon monoxide to the cabin of the aircraft probably impaired the pilot's mental functioning and induced a loss of situational awareness.
Crash site coordinates of 40.975 S, 175.208 E place the crash site on the south side of Renata Ridge, headwaters of the Eastern Hutt River. Crash location altitude was approx 2500 feet (762m) putting the site below the nearby highponts of Elder (1110m) and Renata (924m).
Sources:
https://taic.org.nz/sites/default/files/inquiry/documents/97-012.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 April 1988 | VH-ADB | 0 | Warkworth Airport (YWKW), Warkworth, NSW |  |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Nov-2008 10:35 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Nov-2008 23:29 | angels one five | Updated |
| 03-Jul-2013 01:12 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 16-May-2018 05:36 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-May-2018 23:52 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn] |
| 30-Jan-2022 13:21 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn] |
| 30-Jan-2022 13:22 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn] |
| 30-Jan-2022 13:23 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn] |
| 30-Jan-2022 18:55 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn] |
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