- Date
- February 2, 1988, 14:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lk Havasu City, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N60566Cessna U206F
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880202002669A
- Case key
- 25807
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Probable cause
Pilot's decision to continue flight in forecast marginal VFR conditions in mountainous terrain. Contributing to this accident was the failure of the pilot to obtain an aviation weather briefing and his lack of recurrent training.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60566
- Reported as
- Cessna U206F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20602033
- Airframe hours
- 4,261
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Braun, Ernest
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 13, 1987 · 185 hours before
- Departed
- RYN · Ryan, AZ
- Destination
- LHW · Lk Havasu City, AZ
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
- 65
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Flight hours
- 878 total · 822 in this make and model · 822 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 8 knots
- Temperature
- 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LHU, 13 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.
Other investigations on N60566 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.