- Date
- October 16, 1987, 06:15 local (11:15 UTC)
- Place
- Refugio, TX
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9693BCessna 172RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871016059889A
- Case key
- 22520
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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - drizzle/mistFactor
Weather condition - fogFactor
Light condition - dawnFactor
Weather forecast - not obtainedFactor
Vfr flight into imc - performedCause
Loss of control - in flight
Spatial disorientationCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt continued VFR flt into wx that was IMC. The acft impacted the terrain in an extremely nose low attitude. There was no record of the pilot receiving any pre-flt or in flight weather briefings or forecasts for this flight. A witness reported normal (although wavering) engine sounds just prior to the aircraft crash.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9693B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172RG0972
- Airframe hours
- 855
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-F1A6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Gary Haltom, doing business as Haltom Aircraft Maintenance
- Registered owner
- Dan Sieg
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 29, 1987 · 112 hours before
- Departed
- RKP · Rockport, TX
- Destination
- CRS · Corsicana, TX
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Invalid Medical for flight
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 251 total · 83 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 60° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- NIR, 46 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.