- Date
- December 21, 1979
- Place
- Green Bay, WI · GREEN BAY, WI
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N78STCessna 310R
- Status
- Completed · report October 30, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19791221043929A
- Case key
- 132131
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3974 79/12/21 GREEN BAY,WI CESSNA 310R CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 35, 1632 TIME - 1918 N78ST PX- 2 2 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 70 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - AUSTIN-STRAUBEL DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PALWAUKEE,IL GREEN BAY,WI TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER IFR OPERATION FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OBSCURATION 200 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE ZERO NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES FOG 210 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 5 IFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR REMARKS- ILS RWY 6R APCH.HIT TREES APRX 1/2MI SW OF ARPT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N78ST
- Reported as
- Cessna 310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Austin-Straubel
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.