ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 44028
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| Date: | Monday 28 August 2006 |
| Time: | 14:40 |
| Type: |  Cessna 401 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N408JC |
| MSN: | 401-0075 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 6387 hours |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental TSIO-520-C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Whick -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Wichita Falls, TX (T47) |
| Hazard, KY (K20) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airplane departed on a long cross country flight, with thunderstorms and rain squalls along the general route. Approaching the destination airport, the airplane entered a rain squall, stalled, and impacted the ground in an almost vertical descent. Other than the onboard weather radar being previously removed for maintenance, there were no mechanical anomalies noted with the airplane. The pilot, whose logbook was not recovered, was not instrument-qualified. Although he was recently observed flying four to five times weekly, when the pilot applied for a multi-engine rating about 3 1/2 months earlier, he indicated 107 hours of total flight experience.
Probable Cause: The non-instrument-rated pilot's continued flight into instrument meteorological conditions, and his subsequent failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall. Contributing was the instrument meteorological conditions.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20060914X01335&key=1
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Oct-2008 00:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:24 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 05-Dec-2017 09:21 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
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