- Date
- February 13, 1988, 03:59 local (10:59 UTC)
- Place
- Galisteo, NM
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N602SPCessna T-337H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 17388
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.
Loss of control - in flight
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N602SP
- Reported as
- Cessna T-337H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33701873
- Airframe hours
- 3,453
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-HB, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Public aircraft · Part 91
- Registered owner
- New Mexico State Police
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 1, 1987 · 99 hours before
- Departed
- SAF · Santa Fe, NM
- Destination
- CNM · Carlsbad, NM
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 32
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 646 total · 34 in this make and model · 464 as pilot in command · 79 in the last 90 days · 53 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 360° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 28 °F