- Date
- July 6, 1969
- Place
- Trinidad, CO · TRINIDAD, CO
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5558BCessna 182
- Status
- Completed · report September 16, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 170202
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2378 69/7/6 TRINIDAD,COLO CESSNA 182 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 46, 762 TIME - 2037 N5558B PX- 2 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 436 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS REMARKS- PLT UNAWARE OF HEIGHT OF MTS IN FLT PATH RESULTING IN CRASH ON MT SIDE.DARK NITE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5558B
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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