- Date
- February 14, 1991, 14:14 local (20:14 UTC)
- Place
- Crossville, TN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8641BCessna 172
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910214002389A
- Case key
- 8313
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Probable cause
The improper flight planning by the noninstrument rated pilot which resulted in his inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions in mountainous terrain.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
According to the airport manager at rockwood, Tennessee, VFR conditions existed at rockwood; however, he could see dark clouds beyond the mountain toward Crossville. The FAA flight service station at Crossville was reporting IMC conditions at the time of the accident. There was no record of any attempt by the pilot of N8641B to obtain the current weather. The wreckage was distributed over an area approximately 336 feet in length about 2 miles north of the Crossville, Tennessee, airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8641B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 036341
- Engine
- Continental O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hagen, Gary W.
- Registered owner
- Hagen, Gary W.
- Departed
- RKW · Rockwood, TN
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 130 total · 5 in this make and model · 52 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 11 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 36 °F
- Observed at
- CSV, 4 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.