- Date
- June 15, 1990, 12:56 local (18:56 UTC)
- Place
- Challis, ID
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N7582NCessna TU206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900615020519A
- Case key
- 17836
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Probable cause
The pilot's entry into an excessive maneuver after takeoff with insufficient altitude and airspeed to complete the maneuver, which resulted in a stall/mush into trees. Factors related to the accident were: high density altitude and trees.
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
A witness stated the acft entered a steep climb after takeoff from a strip near a river in mountainous terrain. He said that while still climbing, the acft began a 180 deg 'u-turn' (wing-over) & headed for the ground. Subsequently, it hit trees, crashed on uneven terrain & burned. Impact occurred on a hdg that was nrly perpendicular to the rwy drctn. Elev of the crash site was about 4730 ft; the arpt elev was 4701 ft. no preimpact part failure or malfunction of the acft was found, though the elevator trim cable was found stretched in a nose-up (tab down) drctn. The company had suspended one of the plts for performing a similar maneuver on 3/5/90, after inadvertently entering a box canyon at low altitude.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7582N
- Reported as
- Cessna TU206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20603687
- Airframe hours
- 3,129
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Mountain Bird, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 12, 1990 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Destination
- NONE · Stanley, ID
- Airport
- S81 · Indian Creek Usfs, runway 22, 5,000 × 60 ft, gravel
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,935 total · 515 in this make and model · 2,738 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 61 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots, gusting 7
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Observed at
- U15, 40 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.