- Date
- October 28, 1967
- Place
- Medicine Bow, WY · MEDICINE BOW, WY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5576VStinson 108-5
- Status
- Completed · report January 8, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 112770
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4034 67/10/28 NR.MEDICINE BOW,WYO STINSON 108-5 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 21, 412 TIME - 1715 N5576V PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 261 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION OVERSHOOT LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN COLLIDED WITH: DITCHES LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FACTOR(S) WEATHER - SNOW WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING OFF AIRPORT APPROACHING DARKNESS SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE PARTIAL OBSCURATION 1500 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) SNOW OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F BLOWING SNOW 35 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 360 30 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- LNDG HAY FIELD AFTER TURNING BACK DUE TO SNOW.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5576V
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-5
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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