ERA14WA304

NTSB accident investigation · Cessna U206E · Cerro Militar, Municipio de Calima, Colombia · June 19, 2014

Accident · FatalForeign investigation
Date
June 19, 2014, 18:15 local (18:15 UTC)
Place
Cerro Militar, Municipio de Calima, Colombia
Injuries
3 fatal
Damage
Substantial damage
Phase of flight
Enroute
Aircraft
N4258Cessna U206E
Defining event
Enroute-cruise: Unknown or undetermined
Weather
Day
NTSB office
Eastern Region Aviation
Lead agency
Other
Case key
89497

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Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.

Aircraft

Registration
N4258
Reported as
Cessna U206E
Category
Airplane
Serial number
U20601692
Built
1971
Damage
Substantial damage
Flight
Personal · Non-U.S., non-commercial
Operator
Pacific Rim Aviation LLC
Registered owner
Pacific Rim Aviation LLC
Airworthiness certificate
Standard, Normal
Departed
MPTO · Tocumen
Destination
SKCL · Palmira
Flight plan
Unknown
Equipment
Stall warning system

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.

Weather

Conditions
Day
Wind
Calm
Lowest ceiling
8,000 ft broken
Temperature
84 °F, dew point 64 °F
Altimeter
29.95 inHg
Icing
Unknown
Turbulence
Unknown
Observed at
SKCL, 31 nm away

Docket · 1

The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 8, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 11 KB in all.