- Date
- August 25, 1982, 13:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Del Norte, CO
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N477KWConvair 340
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 25, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820825041269A
- Case key
- 70435
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
According to the flight crew, VMC had deteriorated into IMC over the mountains. After entering IFR conditions the acft impacted a mountain ridge.
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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - cloudsFactor
Vfr flight into imc - continuedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Terrain condition - mountainous/hillyFactor
Aircraft
- Registration
- N477KW
- Reported as
- Convair 340
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 210
- Airframe hours
- 37,102
- Engine
- P & W R-2800-CB3, 2,800 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Resorts Airlines
- Registered owner
- National Services Inc.
- Departed
- C · Pueblo, CO
- Destination
- C · Carlsbad, CA
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 46
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 11,000 total · 670 in this make and model · 180 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 131 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.