- Date
- December 13, 1990, 16:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Globe, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8922TCessna 182C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901213055219A
- Case key
- 26969
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to conduct a weather evaluation prior to flight and his attempt to conduct his flight under visual flight rules into instrument meteorological conditions. Low ceilings along his flight route and self induced pressure to reach his destination were factors in the accident.
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
After flying to a distant airport to perform a service for a family member the pilot took off for his return flight to his home airport without receiving a preflight weather briefing or filing a flight plan. The pilot had made a previous appointment at his home town and was attempting to meet the schedule. Instrument meteorological conditions and mountainous terrain existed along the flight route. The aircraft failed to arrive and was missing. An aerial and ground search was inhibited by instrument meteorological conditions that existed along the assumed flight route. After a six day search the aircraft's wreckage was found in a mountain pass near the destination airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8922T
- Reported as
- Cessna 182C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 52822
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Stiegelmeyer, Jon V.
- Departed
- PO6 · Coolidge, 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 215 total · 182 in this make and model · 170 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.