ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 23008
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| Date: | Saturday 31 May 2003 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 182 |
| Owner/operator: | Fraser Valley Skydiving Centre Ltd |
| Registration: | C-GHKH |
| MSN: | 33353 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental O-470-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Chilliwack, British Columbia -
 Canada
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The Cessna 182, C-GHKH, serial number 33353, owned by the Fraser Valley Skydiving Centre Ltd, took off from a private airstrip near Chilliwack, British Columbia, with the pilot and four skydivers on board at approximately 1840 Pacific daylight time. Two skydivers were released at 3000 feet and two at 9000 feet. The aircraft failed to return to the strip. No emergency locator transmitter signal was received. The Rescue Coordination Centre at Victoria, was notified and a search was initiated. The aircraft was found six days later on a northwest-facing slope of the Skagit mountain range, four nautical miles from the Fraser Valley Skydiving Centre airstrip, at an altitude of about 4600 feet above sea level. A fire had broken out on impact and consumed much of the cockpit area and left wing. The aircraft was destroyed. The pilot was fatally injured.
Findings as to Causes and Contributing Factors
1. The pilot most likely entered cloud inadvertently and continued to descend in the expectation of breaking out of cloud, but flew into high terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
2003P0564
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 25-Oct-2023 14:29 | harro | Updated |
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