- Date
- January 15, 1984, 12:35 local (17:35 UTC)
- Place
- Lafayette, GA
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Emergency descent
- Aircraft
- N2146CCessna 177B
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840115000669A
- Case key
- 6246
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft crashed in an open field during an uncontrolled descent after encountering forecast icing conditions. The plt had received weather briefings and filed a flt plan into icing conditions in an acft not equipped to handle icing. The plt stayed at an icing level for about 19 minutes, 6 minutes of which were with heavy icing accumulating at the rate of about 2 inches per minute. At this time the acft was too heavy to climb and during descent, control was lost and the acft crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2146C
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17702741
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1F6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Shinn, Charles M. Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 24, 1983 · 1,368 hours before
- Departed
- CHA · Chattanooga, TN
- Destination
- BOW · Bartow, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,442 total · 1,266 in this make and model · 1,333 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 32 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHA, 26 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.