- Date
- September 26, 1984, 16:22 local (22:22 UTC)
- Place
- Corona, NM
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6696ECessna 175
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840926051459A
- Case key
- 16492
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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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
At 0809 hrs, plt obtained telephone weather briefing & was advised VFR flt not recommended for intended route. At 1310 hrs, plt obtained second briefing, VFR flight again not recommended, no improvement expected prior to noon of following day. At 1428 hrs plt received in-person third briefing at different fss & was advised marginal VFR at best, filed VFR flt plan and departed. One hr after take-off, in rapidly deteriorationg weather conditions which plt stated existed in all directions, decision was made to effect precautionary landing at airstrip rather than reverse course. Weather conditons at airstrip precluded approach. Precautionary landing executed on a road. Acft collided with cattle fence on roll out.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6696E
- Reported as
- Cessna 175
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 56196
- Airframe hours
- 1,600
- Engine
- Continental GO-300-A, 175 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dudley D. Combs
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1983
- Departed
- LAS · Las Vegas, NV
- Destination
- WSD · White Sands, NM
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NM25 · Lincoln Stateion
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 125 total · 85 in this make and model · 94 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HMN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.