ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 42054
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Date: | Thursday 9 February 1995 |
Time: | 14:15 |
Type: | Cessna 172G |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | N4345L |
MSN: | 17254416 |
Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
Total airframe hrs: | 3389 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Pope Valley, CA -
United States of America
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Petaluma, CA (O69) |
Destination airport: | |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Ground witnesses, including two sheriff deputies, observed the airplane flying over the lake at a low altitude while maintaining a nose-level attitude until it struck high-tension wires that spanned the lake.
The airplane plunged into the lake after the collision and sank. The wreckage examination showed several wire arcing signatures on the airframe and propeller assemblies. The examination also revealed no evidence of any preimpact malfunctions or failures.
CAUSE: the pilot's poor judgment to buzz the lake and his inadequate visual lookout.
Sources:
NTSB:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001207X02990 Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Oct-2008 10:30 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Dec-2016 19:24 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
24-Jan-2024 11:15 |
T980100380R |
Updated [Source] |
24-Jan-2024 11:18 |
harro |
Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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